| Book Review Production Values
by Margaret Sweatman
It seems necessary to preface this review with a caveat, to point out some of the oddities of writing a review of stage plays.
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| Book Review The Voice of a Prophet
by David Prosser
George Ryga is still honoured as a prophet who taught Canadian audiences that spiritual, artistic, and moral passion need not be incompatible with the experiences of their own lives.
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| Book Review Bonds to the Earth
by Don Gayton
In 1985, one of the last nomadic tribes on earth, the Penan, set up blockades to prevent roadbuilding and logging of their homeland in the remote jungles of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
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| Book Review Shifting Expectations
by Janice Keefer
Huggan has succeeded in retaining and extending and developing what made her debut collection such a success: a powerfully acute vision and a remarkable strength and honesty of voice, particularly when she writes about female sexuality.
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| Book Review Lost in the Ice
by Allan Levine
In an age when the exploration of the new world was still held in awe - much as space travel was regarded in the 1960s - the mystery of Franklin's fate captured the imagination of European society.
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| Book Review An Eloquent Epitaph
by George Galt
Even books written 50 or 60 years ago can have some immediacy of time and place for readers not that old- we recognize the world implanted in us by our parents' and grandparents' personal lore.
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| Book Review On Location
by Dan Bortolotti
ON BOTH of my visits to Europe I took along a notebook to record my impressions of the continent and its people. It seems that exotic locations bring out the latent poseur in a writer, whether attempting fiction or travelogue.
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| Book Review Gurus and Gambles
by Jeff Walker
Reichmann, like any guru, cultivated a mystique that legitimated an impenetrable secrecy. The key Reichmann money secret was that an enormous debt pretty well cancelled out the magnificence of Olympia & York's assets.
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| Book Review The Value of Judgement
by Michael Darling
In Canada we have many poets who are also critics, but very few who have contributed as much to our culture as has Louis Dudek.
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| Book Review Bottom of the Order
by Lawrence Scanlan
In other years I have awaited the next Brian Moore novel as a baseball fan awaits spring training after a long white winter. The sense of reward was always heightened, even sweetened, by Mooreless months of denial.
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| Book Review Unremarkable People
by Daniel Jones
Warren's characters are unremarkable people. Beset with tragedy, they are incapable of altering their circumstances, or even of articulating their desires.
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| Book Review The Smooth with the Rough
by Don Akenson
Despite what they taught you in school, Canadian history is boring. On the other hand, Canadian historians frequently are interesting. Take Jack Bumsted. He's the kind of guy you'd want to know, have a few drinks with, argue a bit.
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| Book Review Pain and Glory
by Rozena Maart
Claire Harris's 'Drawing Down a Daughter' and Di Brandt's 'Mother, Not Mother' both give birth, through words, to the realities of the lives of women.
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| Book Review At the Cutting Edge
by Pat Barclay
The answers to British Columbia's environment questions are hardly clear-cut.
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| Interviews The Economies of Language
by Brian Fawcett
Having captured her emotions in poetry, Evelyn Lau prepares to express them at novel length.
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| Letters to Editor Letters to Editor
Letters may be edited for length or to delete potentially libellous statements. Except in extraordinary circumstances, letters of more than 500 words will not be accepted for publication.
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| Essays Continental Shift
by Alan Twigg
British Columbia's readers, writers, and publishers are setting the place for the Canadian book world.
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| Prose/Poetry Work in Progress - Shoot
by George Bowering
Then he saw a slightly unnatural pile of fir boughs beneath a tree just behind the edge of the forest. McLean smiled and cocked his rifle...
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| Profiles Figures of Authority
by Irene Mock
Cynthia Flood comes to terms with the parental and the political.
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| First Novels First Novels - Cross-Breeding Genres
by Gary Draper
This is an old-fashioned novel, not interested in experiment for its own sake, perhaps even technically unadventurous. It succeeds admirably, and as it approaches its double-barrelled climax, it is harder and harder to put down.
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| Field Notes Field Notes - The Jury Is In
by Andrew Vaisius
Perhaps this is simply a helpful gesture to tasteless, ignorant, rookie jurors. I politely decline, though I express the hope that the critiques will be brought to the meeting so we can all share them.
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| George Fetherling Baleful Expressions
by Alec McEwen
The occasion of Princess Anne's second marriage prompted a number of newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic to remark that this was the first wedding of a divorced royal person in England since Henry VIII.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Michael Redhill
The poems in "Curious" are so turned in on themselves that they become black holes, gobbling up the world without emitting any light.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Rita Donovan
Canadian poetry has often been criticized for being complacent, and the damning image is that of poets sitting around and writing poetry for other poets.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Sherri Telenko
A glance at several students repeatedly sifting through the dirt they squatted in under a noon summer sun was my first, and last, exposure to archaeology.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Daniel Jones
'Shades' is a funny, sexy, and inventive novel -a vicious social satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and William Burroughs.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Daniel Jones
'Beyond Happiness' is a delightful book about one man's attempts to find love and happiness, written at a time when the effects of HIV and AIDS had only begun to be known.
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 | Fossil Hunter
by Robert J. Sawyer,
304 pages $5.99 MM
ISBN: 0441248845
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by George Kaufman
Robert Sawyer uses his creations to make many clever anthropological and philosophical observations, to be sure; but the real strength of this story is the compassion and empathy he manages to arouse for these beasts.
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| Jazz Lives
by Gene Lees, John Reeves,
240 pages $39.95 CT
ISBN: 189556512X
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Robin Britt
In performance, these musicians are alert, intense, often manic explorers of the interface between the composed and the improvised; in repose, as here, they blend into the everyday human scene with all too instantaneous alacrity.
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| The Princess of Spadina
by Ramabai Espinet, Veronica Sullivan,
L P C/InBook
32 pages $6.95 PF
ISBN: 0920813666
| | Lonely Seagull
by Book, Stewart,
pages $8.95 PT
ISBN: 0921254407
| | Big Little Dog
by Ruurs, Houde,
pages $7.65 PT
ISBN: 0921254466
| | | Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay
by Peter Cumming, Alice Priestley,
32 pages $15.95 LB
ISBN: 1550372769
| | Pegasus & Ooloo-Moo-Loo
by Wendy Orr, Ruth Ohi,
32 pages $14.95 LB
ISBN: 1550372785
| | Don't Be Scared, Eleven
by Richard Thompson, Eugenie Fernandes,
24 pages $14.95 LB
ISBN: 1550372866
| | | The King & the Tortoise
by Tololwa Mollel, Kathy Blankley,
32 pages $16.95 CT
ISBN: 189555540X
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Children's Books Children's Books - Correct Expressions
by David Homel
One of the elements that lets children learn through reading is naturalness. If a book is to deliver a certain point of view, it should flow from the story and/or pictures themselves.
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| At Large At Large - Runners-Up
by Michael Coren
Did Quixotic and somewhat absurd gym teachers actually mean it when they told generations of their charges that "it is not the winning but the taking part that is important"? Surely not.
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling - A Different Kind of Life
by Douglas Fetherling
The First World War opened up the possibility of a different kind of life, and Elsa Gidlow got a typist's job in Montreal and found the woman who became her first companion.
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