| Book Review From Cosmo Girls to Working Mothers
by Linda Rabieh
What are the proper goals of feminism? Should feminism seek to eliminate disparities between men and women, to celebrate moral sensibilities that seem strongest in women, or to do a little of both? The struggle for feminism has been dominated by...
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| Book Review Hopscotch through Dimensions
by Allan Casey
Measure of Time wears a lot of different hats. It somehow manages to be a novel-or at least a novella-at the same time as a series of interconnected short stories. It also reads with a kind of immediacy as if it came straight out of the author's notebook
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| Book Review From Dunking to Plunging
by Gideon Forman
The engaging thing about this novel of teacher-pupil romance is not the main event, the love story-which is largely standard and familiar-but the background and peripheral stuff. A good deal of the book is set in Mexico but it's not the sex...
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| Book Review A Self of One's Own
by Malca Litovitz
Here, a contemporary woman orients herself in the concentric circles of being. As Erich Fromm writes in The Art of Loving: "Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines...
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| Book Review Maypole of Death
by Debra Black
I was in university when I first discovered a passion for the Middle Ages. I loved studying mediaeval philosophy, history, and literature; in particular, I found a course on mediaeval Jewish history. I became obsessed with the world of Jews in the...
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| Book Review Political Poetry & Impersonation
by Michael Redhill
There are two kinds of political poets: those who frequently die or are at least exiled for political causes; and those who inform. We are all familiar with the names of poets that rose up out of the vortices of war and revolution...
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| Book Review Poems Born Again?
by Stan Rogal
George Amabile's recent collection begins with the epigraph: "Talk is cheap." In a way, this is a fitting start. There is a lot of talk in this book. Sections are titled in terms of talk: "Small Talk", "Table Talk", "Shop Talk", and so on. But I suspect
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| Book Review How Can You Keep the Fab Four on the Farm?
by John Oughton
As cultural touchstones, the Beatles fascinate the Brantford, Ontario poet John B. Lee. His twentieth book focuses on how the Beatles, and other musical and non-musical experiences of his adolescence, permanently changed an Ontario farm boy into a poet...
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| Book Review The Reluctant Memoirist
by Cary Fagan
In 1994 I spent seven months researching a biography of John Irving. Once during that time, John and I emerged from a restaurant in Toronto's Forest Hill Village. I had gone out the door first and he had to take a sprint or two to catch up...
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| Book Review Softly, Lulu
by Alexander Craig
Formed in 1990, the Bloc Québécois came from nowhere to become the Official Opposition three years later. What lies behind such startlingly dynamic growth? And how will it develop in the Bouchard-less future? Preston Manning and the Reform Party are...
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| Book Review Lives of B. C.'s Yin and Yang
by Clive Cocking
British Columbia has always been highly polarized politically. The parties of capitalism and socialism have been the yin and yang of the province's history. So it should not be surprising that two of the most important builders of B.C. today were staunch
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| Book Review Affirm or Neglect - contrasting views on the life of groups
by H. D. Forbes
Increasing contact between different races and cultures is creating new and difficult problems for democracy, as a glance at practically any newspaper, any day of the week, will show. Indeed, democracy is coming to be understood in terms of...
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| Book Review The Space of Thy Tent
by Patricia Heighington
H. J. Cody is probably best remembered now as the president of the University of Toronto during the difficult years of the 1930s depression and the war. Seen by some as the representative of the Anglican Tory establishment, he was a controversial figure.
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| Book Review Not Judges
by Michael Fitz-James
David Williams is a retired barrister who lives in Victoria. His book documents the lives of seven prominent lawyers who shaped the course of Canadian legal history from the era of John A. Macdonald to that of Brian Mulroney. They are linked by their...
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| Book Review Law or Illusion?
by Rainer Knopff
Is the constitution law or judicial fiat? Are judges bound by the constitution or do they create it? David Beatty and Allan Hutchinson occupy polar extremes in the longstanding debate about this question, a debate that has acquired new urgency in Canada
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 | Would You Lend Your Toothbrush? More of What Canadians Borrow, Eat, Watch, Buy & Do...
by Heather Brazier,
pages $11.99 TP
ISBN: 0006380549
|  | Talk to Me Opening up Your Silent Man
by Kris Rosenberg,
Avon Books
192 pages $5.5 MM
ISBN: 0380724707
|  | 5001 Names for Your Pet
by Rita Blockton,
256 pages $6.99 MM
ISBN: 0380780402
| | | Confessions of a Society Columnist
by Sexton,
272 pages $29.95 TC
ISBN: 0771573650
|  | Feng Shui Kit The Chinese Way to Health Wealth & Happiness at Home & Work
by Kwok Man Ho,
pages $34.95 TP
ISBN: 0804830479
| | Catalysts & Watchdogs B. C.'s Men of God 1836-1871
by Joan Weir,
146 pages $14.95 TP
ISBN: 1550390554
| | | The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1996
by Judson D. Hale,
Yankee Publishing, Incorporated
pages $3.95 TP
ISBN: 1571980172
|  | Don't Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me
by Paula Begoun, Miriam Bulmer,
408 pages $19.95 TP
ISBN: 1877988154
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Book Review The Animals Around Us
by Fraser Sutherland
The animals are all around us. They stare back at us from our coinage. They supply us with milk, meat, and honey. We hunt, fish, trap, and photograph them. In avian form, they rid us of mosquitoes; masked like bandits, they raid our trash cans. As pets...
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| Book Review A Civil 2000 - Ian Coutts speaks with Mark Kingwell
"I think that the year 2000 is going to be the supercharged new year's eve of our lifetime." That's the angle that Mark Kingwell is taking on the start of the third millennium. "We will be taking stock in a variety of ways," he says, "ranging from the
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| Book Review From Terror to Error
by Claire Gigantes
In the past thirty years the debate on male-female relations has come to be governed by the "politics of terror", whereby women are cast as victims whose disadvantaged position in society, bedroom, and workplace is exclusively the result of male power...
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| Interviews Once Abroad, Always Abroad - David Homel speaks with Nancy Huston
by David Homel
It's fair to say that readers in English Canada didn't know much about the Alberta-born writer Nancy Huston until they came across a provocative article last fall, either in Harper's or Brick (depending on which world you frequent), about
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| Interviews Lives for Children - Frieda Wishinsky speaks with Sydell Waxman
by Frieda Wishinsky
Many children are dragged, moaning and groaning, to the biography shelves, by a school assignment. Ask any librarian and that's what you'll hear. Why? After all, many of the same elements that attract children or adults to any good story are present
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| Letters to Editor To the Editor
Patriot Cooks Jo-Marie Powers and I wish to thank Ted Whittaker for the great review of Northern Bounty: A Celebration of Canadian Cuisine (February). Personally, I believe his comments were accurate and his observations
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| Essays Compassion and the Globalization of the Spectacle of Suffering
As human beings have always suffered, so have they responded to the suffering of others. Compassion is as old as the human race. What is new is our window on the distress of fellow human beings no matter how remote from us. Thanks to the impact of the
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| First Novels First Novels - First Thrills, First Kills
by Eva Tihanyi
Meredith Andrew in Deadly by Nature (Mercury, 240 pages, $15.95 paper) takes an altogether different approach. She focuses less on events than on characters. There's Lucy Shepherd, a professor specializing in earthworms; Patrick Irving,
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| First Novels First Novels - First Thrills, First Kills
by Eva Tihanyi
James Norman's Echoes (Nenka, 380 pages, $15.95 paper), the first book in a planned series starring the radio journalist Jack MacNeil, revolves around the farfetched notion of a cave filled with voices that echo-endlessly. Jack's curiosity lands
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| First Novels First Novels - First Thrills, First Kills
by Eva Tihanyi
Louis Csonka and Arthur Milewski are co-authors of Forget Me Not (Lugus Publications, 106 pages, $9.95 paper), a short, stylistically simple book that ends up appearing more like an exercise in plotting than a fully realized novel. Henry Froese,
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| First Novels First Novels - First Thrills, First Kills
by Eva Tihanyi
If in the detective fiction genre, predictability is the worst crime of which an author can be accused, A. J. Holt in Watch Me (St. Martin's Press, 326 pages, $31.99 cloth) is most assuredly not guilty.
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| First Novels First Novels - First Thrills, First Kills
by Eva Tihanyi
Harry Currie's Debut for a Spy (Rivercrest, 341 pages, $29.95 cloth), although in many ways a conventional Cold War era spy novel, is thoroughly researched, well-written, and entertaining. It has all the expected ingredients: gorgeous women,
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews
by Susan Helwig
Reading My Father's Book, by Steven Ross Smith (Wolsak & Wynn, 84 pages, $12 paper), begins as a dream, "from somewhere else/beneath knowing." In the dream the poet's father shows him a book and the poet takes a journey throug
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews
by Andrew Faiz
The dust jacket well describes After the Angel Mill, by Carol Bruneau (Cormorant, 168 pages, $16.95 paper): "This linked collection chronicles four generations of women.who represent the unsung multitude who have struggled through the years
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| At Large At Large
by Michael Coren
I must confess to a change of mind. There was a time when I believed that the freedom of individuals to read whatever they liked was paramount and that the state had little if any right to censor or limit the publication of the written
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling - Edging out on a limb
by Douglas Fetherling
Being too close to the subject, we don't often look at how the reputation of Canadian literature is growing in other countries, or at how individual Canadian authors and academics are turning up with increased regularity in American
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