AltWeeklies Wire
Patricia Pearson Examines Her Neuroses and Oursnew
Fear, she believes, is our rational reaction to actual crisis, and most of us -- even neurotics -- are programmed to use it intelligently. Anxiety is something else, an objectless dread that paralyzes us, and seems to be culturally created.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
04-04-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'Nikolski' Plots the Course for Lessons in Lineagenew
Nicolas Dickner's award-winning novel about Montreal and Montrealers has now been released in English.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nicolas Dickner, Nikolski
Susan Pinker Takes on 'The Sexual Paradox'new
The psychologist examines fundamental gender differences and show how they shape the workplace.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-21-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Love is the Bug in 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'new
Cold hearts rule in this Jeffrey Eugenides collection.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
2007's Page Turnersnew
Ten great reads from the past 12 months.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-21-2007 |
Books
Alex Ross Brings the Noisenew
Ross travels from the golden age of Strauss, Mahler and Wagner, through the mid-century struggles of composers -- American, European, black and white, classical, jazz and pretty much everything else.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-04-2007 |
Nonfiction
'The Dirt on Clean' Recounts the History of Hygienenew
Working her way back to the present, with its crazy explosion in bathroom building and anti-bacterial products, Ashenburg makes a strong case for the cultural relativity of clean.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-16-2007 |
Nonfiction
Curse of the Fukunew
Junot Diaz's first novel is a wondrous but brief account of a Dominican growing up in Jersey.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-12-2007 |
Fiction
'I Am America' is a Nice Try That Falls a Little Flatnew
Even if Stephen Colbert was America, the sad reality is that I Am America is not Stephen Colbert. Without Colbert's special je ne sais quoi animating these words and distracting you from the spelling and grammar mistakes, too often the text is lacking.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
'Head Trip' Explores the Science of Sleepnew
Warren's book charts his adventures in Montreal sleep labs, Hawaiian lucid dreaming workshops, Scottish meditation retreats, London and New York hypnotherapy sessions and Toronto neurofeedback labs.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
10-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Reality Goes Hyper in 'Spook Country'new
Gibson recently stated in an interview that technology is the only thing driving change on our planet -- if you're happy believing that, you'll have an easy time enjoying Spook Country.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-21-2007 |
Fiction
Fall Books Preview: Run for Covernew
Spooks, Vietnam vets, Jews with swords and a superstore apocalypse are coming at you this fall.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-14-2007 |
Books
Canada Exists, Sanjania Doesn’tnew
Stephen Mache's fictional anthology, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, has cultural challenges remarkably similar to Canada's.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-07-2007 |
Fiction
'King-Cat': Drawing Badly Wellnew
Bleak, elemental, funny, angry, melancholy genius is scrawled with deceptive skill across an anthology that includes strips from the first 50 issues of his popular self-published zine.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
08-27-2007 |
Fiction
'The World Without Us': Homo Extinctusnew
Alan Weisman takes an in-depth look at a human-less earth.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
08-17-2007 |
Nonfiction
