 Note from Editor Note from the Editor
by Paul Stuewe
Since 1995 looks to be the year when Internet connections and CD-ROM drives become standard household fixtures, we've decided to devote our March issue to the theme of `Writing on the Information Highway.'
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| Book Review The Mulroney Legacy
by Brian Fawcett
Every decent citizen left in this country ought to buy or borrow this book, read it cover to cover, and then have a long cold look in the political and moral mirror. It will, I warn, be a sobering, and quite possibly embarrassing experience.
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| Book Review Approaching Epiphany
by Kevin Connolly
Despair is the most accomplished and original first book of stories by a young Canadian writer to come along in quite some time.
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 | The Trickster
by Jean-Francois Lisee,
400 pages $24.95 TP
ISBN: 1550284665
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Book Review Up to No Good
by David Homel
What's missing in this English version is Bourassa himself, the central enigma of the story, Lisee's despicable clown. Perhaps he got lost in the abridgement.
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| Book Review All about Love
by Eileen Manion
Almost to the end of the novel, Monique Proulx maintains some of the suspense she builds up concerning the interrelationships of her characters. I read it with the intense commitment and absorption of a whodunit.
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| Book Review The Art of Pilgrimage
by Allan Casey
Paul Roberts's unflinchingly brave cross-examination of India's elite and the humanist rapport he establishes with the country's average citizens makes for a penetrating portrait of this often shadowy soul empire.
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| Book Review Demands for Treatment
by Ellen Roseman
Women are writing diaries, memoirs, and autobiographical accounts of dealing with breat cancer, the debilitating treatments, and the sometimes helpful, sometimes horrified reactions of family and friends.
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| Book Review Love Which is Insight
by George Elliott Clarke
Her voice -- succinct, lyrically accented, love-and anger-tinted -- seeps too deeply inside the flesh to allow anyone the luxury of forgetfulness.
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| Book Review A Canaidan Way of Death
by Fraser Sutherland
In Davey's view, disingenuous media latched on to a Gothic plot -- monstrous villains, martyred virgins -- to tell a story. Davey also relates this to a supposedly systemic misogyny in society that turns men to anger and women to self-hatred.
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 | Burden of Dreams
by Anne Hebert, Sheila Fischman,
166 pages $22.95 CT
ISBN: 088784166X
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Book Review A Choice of Lovers
by Anne Denoon
The book's structure is deceptively simple: in present tense throughout and organized in brief vignettes, it evokes both the immediacy of dreams and the disorder of memory, without obstructing the inexorable progress of the narrative.
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| Book Review An Irish Iconoclast
by C Fox
It's interesting to imagine what might have happened on the volatile Quebec scene of the 1970s if that gadfly Conor Cruise O'Brien had seized the opportunity offered to him in 1969 to head what was then Sir George Williams University in Montreal.
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| Book Review Home and Away
by Libby Scheier
Another thread running through many of the stories is the traditional -- and oppressive -- situation of Southeast Asian women in their own cultures.
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| Book Review When Faith Was in Favour
by Dennison Berwick
Providence is out of favour at the moment, but there was a time, especially in the 19th century, when Europeans unquestioningly believed in a divine grace directing the events of their lives.
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| Book Review Mixing Up the Message
by Allan Levine
Canadian editors and journalists clearly have a lot to answer for. But will this book or any other significant commentary make a difference? Bain is not overly optimistic, and rightly so.
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| Interviews Detecting the Truth
by Nancy Wigston
The award-winning biographer Phyllis Grosskurth's latest project has her romantically involved with Lord Byron.
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| Letters to Editor Letters to the Editor
Philosophically, I agree with Givner that contests should encourage new writers and the fees shouldn't be so high as to prevent writers submitting.
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| Prose/Poetry The Glass-Bottom Boat
by Olive Senior
He sat in his chair in the little living room from which he could look directly at her in the bedroom and, watching her, he wondered at all her busyness nowadays with pots and jars and lotions when so little result was obtained.
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| Prose/Poetry The Line
by Dana Tierny
This year's judges awarded the first-place prize of $2,500 to "The Line," a short-fiction piece by Dana P. Tierney. Books in Canada is pleased to publish the winning entry.
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| Profiles Closer to Home
by John Degen
Olive Senior's detailed evocations of place are intended for everyone.
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| Grammar Girl Laying Down the Law
by Rose Thorne
There's no stopping a word when it wants to change its meaning, and 'peculiar' has been overpowered by its own peculiarity.
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| Up Front Up Front - Under the Influence
by Barbara Carey
I'll continue to be interested in knowing admired authors' favourite books, past and present, but just out of curiosity. How a writer's imagination is shaped is, finally, mysterious.
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| Opinion Juries on Trial
by Elisabeth Harvor
The Governor General's Awards in particular seem to symbolize a sort of parental approval. Perhaps this is why the decisions of GG jurors arouse such intense outrage.
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| First Novels First Novels - Drawing the Lines
by Maureen Garvie
All of this issue's books tend to give rise to speculations on the boundaries between life and fiction, and the point at which the writer has chosen to draw the line.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Bruce Whiteman
Inventive this writing is, I suppose, and its satirical edge is clear. But a whole book of it is too much. Rosenblatt is one of our most eccentric poets, and bless him for it.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Tim Bowling
Most readers of poetry understand instinctively that the highest achievements in the genre are reached when emotion meets craft, when something worth saying is said in a memorable way.
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 | Near Death
by Nancy Kilpatrick, Rebecca Todd,
304 pages $6.99 MM
ISBN: 067188090X
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by George Kaufman
In spite of the fact that the climactic showdown is a bit of a letdown, actionwise, by the end of this crazy, violent journey across North America, most members of the modem vampire-tale cult should find that their lust for blood has been sated.
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 | Nehanda
by Yvonne Vera,
pages $12.95 TP
ISBN: 0920661416
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Hazelle Palmer
This is a beautifully written novel. Vera's poetic, mystical style carries you from the Africans' passionate fight to the strangers' mannered ambivalence.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by R Vaughan
Ultimately, 'On the Safe Edge' is the publishing equivalent of decriminalization. It will lead to a better understanding and acceptance of SM fans and fetishists. It may save lives.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by William Christian
Can the Tories recover from Kim Campbell? Only, David McLaughlin says in this elegant and well-crafted book, if they can persuade voters that there is some reason for the party's continued existence.
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| Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by John Parr
A Writer's Life is an enjoyable, often Dickensian account of a lost boyhood, both sad and hilarious.
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 | Rosalie's Catastrophes
by Ginette Anfousse,
Demco Media
pages $8.7 TC
ISBN: 060609797X
|  | School Stinks
by Frank O'Keefe,
132 pages $5.95 TP
ISBN: 077367294X
|  | The Man Who Created Narnia The Story of C. S. Lewis
by Michael Coren,
William B.\Eerdmans#Publishing Company
151 pages $22 TC
ISBN: 0802838227
| |  | A Prairie Year
by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet, Yvette Moore,
32 pages $16.95 TC
ISBN: 0887763340
|  | Starshine at Camp Crescent Moon
by Ellen Schwartz,
160 pages $8.95 TP
ISBN: 0919591027
|  | Dragon in the Clouds
by Rosemary Nelson,
160 pages $6.95 TP
ISBN: 0929141229
| |  | A Light in Space
by Wendy Orr, Ruth Ohi, Ruth Ohi,
124 pages $14.95 LB
ISBN: 1550373684
|  | A Pioneer Story The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840
by Barbara Greenwood, Heather Collins,
240 pages $16.95 TP
ISBN: 1550741284
|  | Witches, Ghosts & Loups-Garous
by Joan Finnigan,
pages $14.95 TP
ISBN: 1550820869
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Children's Books Children's Books - The Lion, the Alien, and the Pioneers
by Allison Sutherland
A sound biography of a great children's writer. A rising SF star. A tasty slice of Quebecois life. And a fine book of do-it-yourself pioneering. Four for the read.
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| At Large At Large - Who Stole Reviewing?
by Michael Coren
What this feminist author does is to tear away at the foundations of victimology, that chimera upon which the entire industries of fraudulent statistics, false accusations, and radical political agendas are so frequently based.
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| Douglas Fetherling Douglas Fetherling - A Forum for Interviews
by Douglas Fetherling
As an interviewer, Kirkwood has a wonderfully quirky style, and 'Between the Lines' is generally a delight to read, despite some editing errors.
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