Essays, Articles, and Media
Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Bod
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/factfict/ozick.htmprovides an interview, "The Many Faces of Cynthia Ozick," in which Ozick reflects on her work.
Ka-Ching!
www.youth.gc.ca is a Canadian government site that contains links to career planning and employment resources for young people.
Afternoon of an American Boy
www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white.html
features readings by E.B. White, criticism of his works, and links to numerous articles about the author.
A Place to Stand On
http://entrenet.com/~groedmed/ml.html provides biographical information on Margaret Laurence, a listing of her works, and links to related sites.
Chameleons and Codas
www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/culture/voices.html. PBS interviewed eight deaf people from around the New York metropolitan area to learn about their experiences living in a hearing world. In this feature, you can read a bit about each person and their ideas, and then watch a short video clip from the interview.
Elegy in Stone
www.globebooks.com/interviews/heighton.html provides the text of a Globe and Mail author interview with Steven Heighton about his new novel, The Shadow Boxer, and a retrospective on his poetry- and fiction-writing career.
The Death of the Moth
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/W/Woolf,_Virginia is a Virginia Woolf site with links to essays, quotations, and photographs.
Guy Lafleur
www.oldtimershockey.com/players/lafleur.htm features an interview with Lafleur upon his involvement with the Oldtimers' Hockey Tour.
My Mother's Blue Bowl
www.pbs.org/immaw presents information, links, and video clips from the PBS series I'll Make Me a World, which celebrates the achievements of twentieth-century African-American writers, painters, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists.
Migrant Mother
www.newseum.org/pulitzer. This site features a multimedia presentation entitled "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," in which Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers talk about their photographs.
Of Youth and Age
www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon features biographical information, pictures, quotations, a timeline, and links to other sites related to Sir Francis Bacon's life and works. It also presents arguments for Bacon being the illegitimate son of Elizabeth the First.
Why I Write
www.oneworld.org/internatpen is the site for International P.E.N., and includes the history of P.E.N.; information on the various committees such as Writers for Peace, Writers in Prison, Women Writers, and Writers in Exile; and information about P.E.N. Magazine and P.E.N. Centres around the world.
The Not-So-Deadly Sin
www.kingsolver.com is the official Barbara Kingsolver Web site; it includes a frequently asked questions section, her biography, a bibliography, and reviews of her published works.
Call of the Weird
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ks/english/3308_e.html provides biographical information on Drew Hayden Taylor, a listing of awards he has won, and a listing of his plays and books.
A Modest Proposal
www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program
is designed to facilitate "the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger." Maintained by the World Hunger Program of the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University, it provides information in and links to four areas: research, field work, advocacy and policy, and education and training.
Get Beyond Babel
www.sil.org is the Web site of SIL International, an organization that works with language communities worldwide "to facilitate language-based development." The site includes catalogues of languages of the world and a table that provides information about all languages currently spoken in Canada , as well as articles about endangered languages that offer an opposing view to that expressed by Wiwa.
The Death of History Is Bunk
www.histori.ca/minutes. This interactive site allows you to search for a particular Canadian "Heritage Minute" by theme, region, or chronology. It also provides hints for classes wishing to make their own "Heritage Minute," and allows you to view Minutes created by other Canadian students.
Wanderers by Choice
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Hoffman/hoffman-con0.html features Eva Hoffman in conversation with Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, on October 5, 2000. She talks about her family background, becoming a writer, being a displaced person, and being both Polish and Jewish.
Peace, Technology, and the Role of Ordinary People
www.peacezine.org/oldindex.html is an on-line forum focused on the topic of world peace.
Slide to Entropy
www.thetelegram.com/topstories/columns/columns.asp?sel=kwinter. Kathleen Winter writes the weekly "Naturally" column for the Saturday issue of the Telegram (St. John's). This site includes about three months of back issues of her column.
Paradise, a Poet, and Promised Land
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists contains links that tell the complete story of how Canada became the home of the first settlements of free blacks outside Africa.
Hockey Night in Port Hawkesbury
www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Hockey/English. This site, "Hockey: A Nation's Passion," includes articles on amateur, professional, and international hockey, and also takes a look at the role of hockey in our society.
The Sixth Flight
www.paragliding.com is a site on the sport of paragliding. It features a photo gallery, newsletters, articles, and frequently asked questions and answers.
Buying Your Next Synthesizer
www.synthesizers.com contains links to such things as artist spotlights, "cool links," and "sound of the day."
A Chat with Al Purdy
www.nwpassages.com/bios/purdy.asp contains a detailed profile of Al Purdy.
Ours by Design
www.pauktuutit.on.ca/main_e.html is the site of Pauktuutit, the Inuit Women's Association.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/learn/learn-e.html, the site of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, provides historical and contemporary information on intellectual property in Canada, and includes interactive learning pages.
Look What I Found
www.maxine.net is Marian Henley's personal Web site, in which she discusses her work and career as a cartoonist and provides access to her comic strips.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
www.indiana.edu/~myth98/icarus.html contains images of the story of Icarus and Daedalus from classical antiquity to modern times.
Shower at Ohashi Bridge
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo, entitled "Viewing Japanese Prints," this site is dedicated to the "appreciation of three centuries of Japanese printmaking."
The Poetry of Earth and Sky
www.courtneymilne.com/womitchell/woportfolio.html is an on-line introduction to W.O. Mitchell Country, the book from which the excerpt in this anthology is taken.
Canada: A Virtual History
www.cbc.ca/history provides an overview of the seventeen-episode documentary series Canada: A People's History and includes a historical timeline, a discussion board, games and puzzles relating to the episodes, a bibliography, and literary links.
Unzipped
www.freep.com/jobspage/academy/foreign.htm features an excerpt from a presentation made by a former foreign correspondent on tricks of the trade and includes a link to advice on becoming a foreign correspondent.
The Humpback of Notre Dame
www.gov.nf.ca/tourism/default.htmis the Web site of the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation.
Morty Mania
www.media-awareness.ca/eng is the Web site of the Media Awareness Network, a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging critical thinking about media information, media entertainment, and new communications technologies.
http://adbusters.org/spoofads/printad provides step-by-step instructions on the process and considerations involved in creating a print advertisement.
The Monkey's Paw
http://web.mit.edu/mittwins/www. This "MIT Twins Study" site presents the results of research on language development in twins, and also contains links to a number of twin-related Web sites.
Restoring Life on the Edge
www.livingbywater.ca is the Living by Water Project Web site.
