 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch,
384 pages $39.95 TC
ISBN: 0374286973
|  | Touched by Fire Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis
by Elliott Leyton, Greg Locke,
224 pages $29.95 TC
ISBN: 0771053053
|  | The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda
by Arthur J. Klinghoffer,
New York University Press
pages $40 TC
ISBN: 0814747213
| |  | Military - Civilian Interactions Interventing in Human Crises
479 pages $18.95
ISBN: 0847687455
|  | Moral Search Humanitarian Intervention in Internal Conflicts
by Jonathan Moore, Cornelio Sommaruga,
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Incorporated
320 pages $24.95 TP
ISBN: 0847690318
| | State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa
525 pages $65
ISBN: 155877990
| | | Leave None to Tell the Story Genocide in Rwanda
789 pages $35
ISBN: 1564321711
|  | Aiding Violence The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
by Peter Uvin,
Kumarian Press, Incorporated
288 pages $24.95 TP
ISBN: 1565490835
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Book Review Rwanda
by Howard Adelman
In 1994, between 6 April and mid-July, a period of ninety-nine days of mayhem, approximately 500,000- 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in Rwanda
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| Book Review Sensation Dark but Not Without Pleasure
by Scott McFarlane
Sally Ito's The Floating Shore, nominated for the 1999 Alberta Book Award, is a series of short stories that follows the transient, dislocated lives of characters traveling the estranging yet seductive paths between Japan and Canada.
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| Book Review The Dream Bird Hatches from the Egg of Loneliness
by Diana Kuprel
How sad to think that at 30 Mazeppa Street, where I spent so many lovely hours, no one will be left, all of it will become mere legend. I don't know why I feel guilty towards myself, as if I had lost something and it was my own fault.
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| Book Review Tipsy with the reeling times
by Ronald Hatch
When news leaked out late last year that a new book of "unpublished" Dorothy Livesay poems was in the works, people in the literary community were greatly excited, for Livesay had often commented on her sheaves of unpublished verse. But there was also
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| Book Review Yes - No - Maybe So: Covering the Quebec Question
by Mike Gasher
The most difficult section of a course I teach on the media in Quebec concerns the role the news media play as political actors in Quebec society. It is difficult because students tend to oversimplify this role, leaning toward what we might call
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| Book Review Zoning In - Zoning Out
by Paul Dutton
John C. Lilly, the scientist who established interspecies communication with dolphins and who explored chemically induced altered states of consciousness, had an astute term for what most people consider to be normal: consensus reality.
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| Book Review Imperialism and Its Discontents
by George Elliott Clarke
Two recent collections of post-colonialist prose feature the struggle of two Indo-Canadian writers and thinkers to resist Canadian eurocentricity and to preserve their "cultural originality."
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| Book Review A footprint, a dark forest, a mythical bird
by John Weber
Pnina Granirer was born Paula Solomon in Romania in 1935. The strong connection she made as a child to the visual world there is an important factor in her mature art.
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| Book Review Cyclops Revolution
by Darren Werschler-Henry
If the idea of not just one new compact disc filled with poetry but an entirely new line of poetry CDs leaves you stone cold, you're probably not a poet (or, that rarest of creatures, a non-academic poetry reader who doesn't write poetry her/himself).
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| Book Review Deutsche Frage - Legislating Race in the Third Reich
by Norman Ravvin
As it seems to do every few years, the Holocaust has returned to public consciousness following three troubling developments.The threat of class action suits against the largest German industrial corporations has led to the creation
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| Book Review On the Edge of Empires
by Cherry Clayton
Migrating from South Africa to Canada, as I did in 1991, has meant a movement from a society historically constructed on racial binaries to one in which there were multiple claims on difference and social justice. "Identity politics" and even
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| Book Review Ecology's Trojan Horse
by Lorraine Johnson
In the early 1980s, the supermarket chain of Loblaws started to produce an advertising vehicle called the Insider's Report. Part goofy consumer comic book and part serious shrine to commercial culture, the thick advertising flyer is not only dense and
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| Book Review Educating Readers, or New Voices Echoing in a Deaf Crowd
by Richard Sanger
Reading Alberto Manguel's new collection of essays, Into the Looking-Glass Wood, I began to formulate arguments against reading and books in general; still, I couldn't stop reading. As our leading apologist for reading, Manguel has certainly found
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| Book Review Fire that Wears Away
by Tymothi J
A professor of mine told me she avoided terms like "good" and "bad" when judging a poem; instead, she insisted on assessing its "competency". Assuming that competency is preferable to incompetency, nearly half the submissions included in this latest off
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| Book Review From the Rubble of West Gull
by Jack Illingworth
Matt Cohen's latest novel, Elizabeth and After, takes place in West Gull, a small town near Kingston. West Gull is not the sort of quaint, genteel community that we have come to expect from the rural Canadian novel. While our writers tend to cram their l
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| Letters to Editor To the Editor
Back Through the Looking-Glass The flaws in Mary di Michele's review of White Stone: The Alice Poems by Stephanie Bolster (Feb. 1999) are self-evident to any intelligent reader. Mary di Michele writes "Bolster is `age nine' when she encounters a man
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| Profiles Reaching Up to the mind of Aquinas
by Daniel Monsour
One of the greatest Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century was the Canadian Jesuit priest and Professor of Theology, Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan was born in Buckingham, Quebec, in 1904, and died eighty years later in Pickering, Ontario. In the
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| First Novels First Novels - Novel Ideas for 1999
by Diana Brebner
We are very happy to introduce Diana Brebner as our new First Novels' Editor. Diana is an Ottawa resident and graduate of the University of Ottawa, where she studied philosophy. Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as The Malahat Review, Event, Grain
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| First Novels First Novels - Novel Ideas for 1999
by Diana Brebner
We are very happy to introduce Diana Brebner as our new First Novels' Editor. Diana is an Ottawa resident and graduate of the University of Ottawa, where she studied philosophy. Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as The Malahat Review, Event, Grain
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| First Novels First Novels - Novel Ideas for 1999
by Diana Brebner
We are very happy to introduce Diana Brebner as our new First Novels' Editor. Diana is an Ottawa resident and graduate of the University of Ottawa, where she studied philosophy. Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as The Malahat Review, Event, Grain
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| First Novels First Novels - Novel Ideas for 1999
by Diana Brebner
We are very happy to introduce Diana Brebner as our new First Novels' Editor. Diana is an Ottawa resident and graduate of the University of Ottawa, where she studied philosophy. Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as The Malahat Review, Event, Grain
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Medicine
by Jeanette Bayduza
To explain the complex subject of the cause of cancer in comprehensible terms to those not involved in this type of science is the purpose of Robert A. Weinberg's One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Basic Books, 170 pages, $30 cloth).
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Architecture
by Francois Lachance
"Theorists are forced out of the sanctuary of theory. Practitioners are roused from sleepwalking practice. Both meet in the realm of building and engage with objects." (Mark Wigley) Architecture Theory since 1968 (MIT Press, 808 pages, $80 US
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Alana Wilcox
The body is a common metaphor for discussing fiction. Yet, while we tend to focus on a narrative's "flesh" and "skeleton", we rarely consider what goes on inside the bones. This is the fresh perspective taken by Nora Gold in her excellent first
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| The Dead of Winter
by Paul Gosling, Paula Gosling, Gosling,
320 pages $29.95 TC
ISBN: 0316912387
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Jennifer Duncan
Writers often toil on their books for years and for very little financial compensation. Imagination is a capricious creature, and the writing process a snarling leash. Out of respect for these considerations, judging a book as bad seems churlish. Call
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Madeline Bassnett
With her first book of poetry, Monkeypuzzle (Press Gang Publishers, 107 pages, $14.95 paper), Rita Wong positions herself alongside poets such as Dionne Brand and Muriel Rukeyser, for whom the personal and political are intertwined.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - History
by Sophia Schweitzer
Originally written in Gaelic and published in 1841, Robert MacDougall's thoroughly entertaining The Emigrant's Guide to North America (edited by Elizabeth Thompson, Natural Heritage Books, 160 pages, $18.95 paper) is many things: a practical manual
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - History
by Ian Allaby
Long ago, when this was a real country with a buck worth better than par, a landscape portrait of grain fields under a majestic cumulus sky graced the back of our dollar bill. And, though it was barely more than a speck on the vast horizon, a grain
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| Children's Books Children`s Books
by Erinn Banting
Some children have absolutely no difficulty jumping into any and all situations feet first. Others prefer to stand back, to observe, to test the water, to feel out the situation, and to exhaust all of the what's and why's before even thinking about
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| Children's Books Children`s Books
by Lian Goodall
Safari's magnificent illustrations by one of Canada's foremost wildlife artists, Robert Bateman, are a great way to acquaint children aged six to eleven with the animals of Africa, the continent where Bateman taught for two years and which he has often
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| Children's Books Children`s Books
by Sherie Posesorski
Harry Potter is a Cinderella afraid to dream at the start of J.K. Rowling's fantasy adventure novel, Harry and the Philosopher's Stone. The orphaned Harry lives with his loathsomely normal Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia Dursley. Skinny, small,
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| Children's Books Children`s Books
by Alicia Sloboda
"The truest kind of happiness, the only kind that is really worth having, the happiness of making others happy too!"
So writes Lewis Carroll in a letter to all child-readers of his first Alice book on Christmas of 1871. Having captivated over
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling - Duelling Poet
by Douglas Fetherling
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of the famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, whose works most ordinary Russians, including children and factory workers, can quote from memory in a way that isn't true of any English writer, Shakespeare included
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| First Novel Award First Novel Award
by Joan Givner
This year, the evaluations of the three judges did draw us into a slightly torturous process of deciding which of the fine books shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award was the indisputable winner.
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| Great Authors Poetic Intensity of Human Interplay - Aleksander Rybczynski speaks with Joseph Brodsky
This interview was conducted during the 1994 Toronto Authors' Festival. AR: In your 1987 Nobel Prize lecture, you write: "There are, as we know, three modes of cognition: analytical, intuitive, and the mode that was known to the biblical prophets
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| Great Authors Dry Land of Days Where We Remain - on Brodsky
"A prominent forehead, hair swept back yet framing the head with a reddish halo, a sharp though not quite aquiline nose, and pale blue eyes-this is how I remember Joseph Brodsky when I met him at the Vancouver Airport in the fall of 1972, when he arrive
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| Great Authors Linguistic Disobedience and the Code of Conscience - a summation
"Unlike society, a good poet always has the future, and his poems, in a manner of speaking, are an invitation for us to sample it." (from "An Immodest Proposal") Meeting Joseph Brodsky during the 1994 Toronto Festival of Authors left
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| Great Authors Great Authors of Our Time - Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky was born in May of 1940 in Leningrad. Disenchanted with formal education, he left school at the age of fifteen to pursue his own studies. He worked at a series of menial jobs. At the age of eighteen, he began writing poetry, and taught
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