March 30, 2006 at 05:05pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
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There’s a current vogue for histories of various objects of arcana, but Darren Wershler-Henry takes the genre a step further…Read More »
Shiver me timbers! Evan Solomon, wunderkind co-founder of the now-defunct Shift magazine, hip television host, journalist, and novelist, is now…Read More »
March 21, 2005 at 10:10am | Filed under: Picture Books
Every year, thousands of hours are spent earnestly debating whether Christopher Columbus was a brave explorer or a genocidal imperialist.…Read More »
February 7, 2005 at 04:06pm | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Ben Larsson, the teenage protagonist of Gillian Chan’s latest YA novel, is confronted by eerie supernatural phenomena while reluctantly accompanying…Read More »
January 21, 2005 at 12:15pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Legend has it that one day in 1929 J.P. Morgan, the wealthy U.S. financier, received a stock tip from a…Read More »
April 19, 2004 at 05:30pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
At the age of 70, Penelope Stephens creates a list of life goals. On reviewing them, she decides to find…Read More »
March 8, 2004 at 10:24am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
“Most of the women I knew were frightened out of all proportion to statistical reality. Although heart disease was far…Read More »
March 3, 2004 at 12:12pm | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The Ghost of Avalanche Mountain is the final book in Vancouver Island writer Julie Lawson’s Goldstone trilogy. The stories span…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:41pm | Filed under:
When morning comes, I lie down beside my mother until she wakes up. She likes that.” So begins this gentle…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:23pm | Filed under: Picture Books
Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” and Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey both resonate in Peter…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 11:47am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels