Skip to content

From the archives

Enough Heat to Melt the Ice

A new generation of novels about hockey finds the action away from the rink

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Issues

October 2004

Tom Pokinko Tom Pokinko is a Montreal-based illustrator and graphic artist. He can be reached at tom_pokinko@yahoo.ca.

Sickness in the Church

How will Rome minister to an institution debilitated by the sex abuse scandals?

Michael W. Higgins

The "Hamlet" of the Maritimes

Portrait of a political leader who can't seem to make up his mind

Geoffrey Stevens

The Importance of Being Mennonite

Hilarious, heart-breaking comedy told by a gifted, creative liar

Magdalene Redekop

Reader-Friendly Critics

In the po-mo world of theory, three writers still champion the plain style.

Sam Solecki

Chasing Celebrity

What happens to a culture that takes Andy Warhol's prediction seriously

Timothy Taylor

Living on Corporate Welfare

Will Bombardier's pipeline to government funding end any time soon?

Andrew Allentuck

Strutting and Fretting

Two novels explore the chaos and creativity of the actor's life

Graham Harley

Making Gender Count

How can women crack Canada's electoral "glass ceiling"?

Donna Dasko

Poets of the Country

At long last, a literary historian charts the distant beginnings of CanLit

W. J. Keith

The Theory of Everything

Three books examine our insatiable need to explain the nature of the universe

Peter Calamai

Canada's Yankee Railroad Czar

A new biography reveals Van Horne's private tragedies as well as his public accomplishments

Mark Lovewell