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Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast

Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »

May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

By Jeannie Marshall

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is currently touring event centres across Europe and North America (including a stop in Toronto this spring), promising a “life-size, up-close, never-before-seen perspective” of one of the world’s most celebrated ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History, Memoir & Biography

★ Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By Quinn Slobodian

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stripped Walt Disney World of its special zoning – a move critics said was blatant retaliation for Disney’s opposition to DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Business & Economics, History, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother

By Norma Dunning

“The naming of a child for Inuit is ceremonial,” writes Norma Dunning in her new nonfiction work Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother. She describes how ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Race & Ethnic Relations

A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic

By Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel (ill.); W. Donald Wilson (trans.)

Lac-Mégantic made headlines across the country and around the world when a train derailment destroyed half of that sleepy Québec town one summer night in 2013, taking 47 lives in an instant. Now, in an ... Read More »

October 26, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Science, Technology & Environment

The Vanishing Past: Making the Case for the Future of History

By Trilby Kent

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 »

September 28, 2022 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda

By Michael Hingston

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

A History of Canadian Fiction

By David Staines

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 »

March 28, 2022 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend

By Adam Shoalts

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 »

November 3, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By Dean Jobb

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 »

June 30, 2021 | Filed under: History, Reviews

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