As far as famous football players go, the name Jason Peter doesn’t exactly rank up there with the Montanas and Mannings. In fact, unless you followed college football in the mid-90s, it …
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It’s clear that Sheree-Lee Olson long ago succumbed to the lure of the water. Her debut novel, Sailor Girl, brims with affection for Canada’s Great Lakes and the sailors whose lives …
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Fiction works when it has a unique perspective, and Lien Chao’s slim volume certainly has that.
Ranging from the himalayas to the Don Valley Parkway and back, Nila Gupta’s debut collection of short fiction is both graceful and powerful.
This newest entry in a crowded field of books dealing with statistics and probability (Struck By Lightning, The Black Swan) does an admirable job of covering the basics.
It helps that as a science …
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Mathematicians have written popular tracts on the enigmatic properties of numbers before, but none before this one have started with a quote from Jane Austen.
In one of the more virtuosic displays …
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Readers can easily relate to David Sedaris’s experiences. Scary babysitters, trips to the zoo, strange neighbours, language barriers or air travel all find a place in his “realish” tales.
The humour …
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I just can’t say goodbye to pride, so let me keep the vibe alive by flagging Ali Smith’s delicious little quickie.
As part of a series called The Myths, Girl Meets Boy reworks the Iphis story handed …
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Jeanette Winterson is hot. I just have to start by saying that.
It doesn’t matter if she’s writing about lighthouses or oranges or cherries or even, in the case of The Stone Gods, eco-disaster. …
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Big Daddy Kane notoriously uttered, “Ain’t no half-steppin’,” as a way of life in hip-hop. It’s the best way to operate in this aggressive subculture – except for gays thinking of coming out.
In …
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Reading stunt is like arriving at a buffet where every dish on the table is unusual, made with oddly paired ingredients, but tastes delicious. For days afterwards you can’t stop thinking about it, …
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THURSDAY | AUG | 07 | 2008
- Book Reviews
- Rebel at sea
- No hero here
To talk about Gertrude Stein is to talk about Alice B. Toklas, her lover of 40 years, confidante, typist and cheerleader.
The couple met in Paris in 1907 and became bright stars of the expatriate …
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Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow’s fiction used to read more like the accretion of ideas than novels, technological longings steps ahead of their time, whose narratives were an afterthought.
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Deeply moving and highly rereadable, the 27 interviews here do a lot more than put a face on starvation, oppression and corruption in contemporary China. Each subject’s detailed, powerfully emotional …
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