In January of this year, a minor kerfuffle arose down south over a Virginia state bill intended to ban the discussion of “divisive concepts” in schools. Naturally, these included material about civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, ... Read More »
In Try Not to Be Strange, Edmonton author (and publisher of Hingston & Olsen Publishing) Michael Hingston happens upon the work of Javier Marías, the famous Spanish writer and translator, and finds an odd thread ... Read More »
September 14, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Pretty much everything you need to know about the new single-volume history of Canadian fiction in English, by noted academic and editor David Staines, can be gleaned from the book’s cover. The image – an ... Read More »
Adam Shoalts’s latest book, ominously entitled The Whisper on the Night Wind, begins matter-of-factly with the author uncovering tales about a monster that once stalked the Melville Lake region of Labrador – in particular, the ... Read More »
Thomas Neill Cream’s early life was uneventful – born in Scotland in 1850 and raised in Quebec City – and he progressed through medical school at McGill and in Great Britain; he then worked in ... Read More »
Afghanistan is often imagined by North Americans to be either an inferno of endless turmoil and repression of women or a rest stop for hippies seeking enlightenment, drugs, and groovy carpets. In our popular imagination, ... Read More »
Scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg of Alderville First Nation) offers her distinctive Nishnaabeg storytelling in this year’s instalment of the Kreisel Lecture Series, entitled A Short History of the Blockade. ... Read More »
The diaries of Canada’s 10th prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, have been used to analyze Canada at a critical time in its history, as well as his own politics and personal life. Neville Thompson, ... Read More »
In January 1993, Denise Davy met a woman whose brief acquaintance would shape the next two-and-a-half decades of her life. Davy, then a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator, was spending the night at a shelter ... Read More »
War has been, and continues to be, a key element of human history. There is archaeological evidence that we have always used violence both to make gains and defend ourselves. In her new book, War: ... Read More »
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