★ All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir

Getting old is no fun. And caring for aging parents is no fun either. In All Things Consoled, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist Elizabeth Hay lays bare the last few years of her parents’ lives while ... Read More »

August 2, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Machine Without Horses

By Helen Humphreys

In a 2017 Maclean’s magazine interview about her non-fiction title The Ghost Orchard, which blended meticulous research and historical fact with a few dalliances into fiction, Helen Humphreys described how her writing had morphed into ... Read More »

July 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

By Darrel J. McLeod

In his debut memoir, writer Darrel J. McLeod uses the imagery and tenets of Cree storytelling to make sense of a harrowing childhood. McLeod has written a powerful, unflinching work of non-fiction, one that isn’t ... Read More »

July 19, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood

By Bill Gaston

Some drunks are mean, violent, and needy. Others, like Bill Gaston’s late father, act like a “gentleman” when sober and a “frat boy” when drunk. But even these tamer drinkers can be hard to forgive ... Read More »

June 25, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home

By Tima Kurdi

Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Homes: A Refugee Story

By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah; Winnie Yeung

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Whenever You’re Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

By Shawn DeSouza-Coelho

Shawn DeSouza-Coelho’s new book about life backstage at what is arguably Canada’s premiere repertory company – Ontario’s Stratford Festival – provides a unique, albeit superficial, glimpse into a little-known and often unheralded part of the ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: Letters

By Laura K. Davis (ed.); Linda M. Morra (ed.)

In the 1960s Margaret Laurence was the most highly praised female novelist in the country, the author of such important works as The Tomorrow-Tamer, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. This ... Read More »

May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies, Memoir & Biography

★ Boys: What It Means to Become a Man

By Rachel Giese

Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Katherine Luo

In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

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