Fall 2002

Before We Had Words

This elegant book of verse is an exercise in the elegaic written, as the author indicates in more than one poem, ...

By Lucille King-Edwards

Phyllis Munday, Mountaineer

Celebrate the United Nations' International Year of Mountains by reading about Phyllis (Phyl) Munday, female ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Fair Weather

Like his D&Q stablemate Chester Brown, Joe Matt has uncanny access to the part of the brain marked "kid." His ...

By Ian McGillis

Café Alibi

Todd Swift is an unsettling writer. One of the things that strikes me about his latest poetry collection, Café ...

By Adrienne Ho

Wilfred Laurier: A Pledge for Canada

Readers learn about the journey of Canada's first French-Canadian and Roman Catholic prime minister from his small ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

Summer Blonde

The title calls to mind some sun-dappled Beach Boys idyll, but Adrian Tomine has something very different in mind. ...

By Ian McGillis

The Envelope. Please (CD)

The Envelope, Please, by Swifty Lazarus - a collaboration between the poet and the composer/musician Tom ...

By Adrienne Ho

The Mole Sisters and the Cool Breeze

The sisters, while waiting for a cool breeze, fan themselves with dandelion leaves. When the dandelions complain ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte

The Art of Deception

For all their say-so existence, art forgeries are almost always as satisfying as the honest article. Indeed, those ...

By Carmine Starnino

Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec

This is just one of the many excellent travel guides produced by Éditions Ulysses, a publisher of both English and ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Mole Sisters and the Question

This time around the sisters want to know who they are, so they head out in search of an answer. The siblings rule ...

By Carol-Ann Hoyte