Criticism & Essays

★ Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

Four months of eyeballing slides at 8:30 a.m. in “Introduction to Visual Perception” changed everything. The instructor was a draft dodger with impossible sideburns, and he showed us how to read the stories inside pictures. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Exploded View

By Jean McKay

There is no doubt that Jean McKay had an epiphany of sorts when she wrote her latest offering, Exploded View. In this collection of entries exploring the reading and writing life, every letter of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing

By Alison Garwood-Jones

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Julie Enfield explores the physical and emotional journey our lips can lead us on in her first book, Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing.The bulk of the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers

By Donna Bailey Nurse

A key figure in the growing public discourse on race and voice in Canadian letters is Toronto reviewer, literary critic, and journalist Donna Bailey Nurse. Her first book, What’s a Black Critic To Do?, is ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century

By Dan Yashinsky

More than any other activity, it is storytelling that makes us human. Termites build. Primates use tools. Most animals have some form of language, of communication. So far as we know, however, it is only ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By Robert Adams

Robert Adams’ A Love of Reading introduces 18 novels published, for the most part, over the last 10 years. Adams first delivered these reviews to packed theatres in Montreal and Toronto. Chapters on Maguib Mahfouz’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

By Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly, eds.

At first glance Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly’s new collection of essays, L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, may seem an odd idea. Montgomery’s most famous creation, Anne Shirley (of Anne of Green Gables fame) may ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

By M. Owen Lee

This is a quite unnecessary yet quite engaging little book. Father Owen Lee, a life-long operaphile and this country’s most famously perfect Wagnerite, is writing to persuade us that horrible people can create splendid works ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Marginalia: A Cultural Reader

By Mark Kingwell

For any Canadian who reads about culture or politics, University of Toronto philosophy professor Mark Kingwell is a household name. From his essays on television in Saturday Night, to his cultural columns in Adbusters, to ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Desire in Seven Voices

By Lorna Crozier, ed.

The concept of Desire in Seven Voices is a compelling one: Governor General’s Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier has brought together seven well-known Canadian women writers of vastly different ages and backgrounds, and asked them to ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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★ Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate

Exploded View

Kiss and Tell: An Intimate History of Kissing

What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

Marginalia: A Cultural Reader

Desire in Seven Voices

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