★ Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada

As we navigate feminism’s fourth wave, it can be easy to forget how we got here. The struggles of feminisms past have a lot to teach us about the tactics women marshalled to face down ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After

By Monique Bégin

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness

By Adam Pottle

What does it mean to create? And how can one’s circumstances constrain or liberate creativity? Two Canadian academics and authors – Saskatoon’s Adam Pottle and Toronto’s Adrian McKerracher – sensitively and distinctively tackle these questions ... Read More »

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor

By Adrian McKerracher

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ This One Looks Like a Boy:  My Gender Journey to Life as a Man

By Lorimer Shenher

Ten years ago, I read a book called Almost Perfect. The young-adult novel by Brian Katcher won some awards and was held up as a powerful, nuanced portrayal of a young trans person. But the ... Read More »

January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Soar, Adam, Soar

By Rick Prashaw with Adam Prashaw

January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Misfit: autistic. gay. immigrant. changemaker.

By Andreas Souvaliotis

“Why were [my employers] paying me for the amount of time and freedom I gave up to be at work each day instead of paying me for what I produced?” This sentence, the rallying cry ... Read More »

January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Art of Leaving: A Memoir

By Ayelet Tsabari

Shortly before her 10th birthday, Ayelet Tsabari was forced to deal with the death of her father. Though losing a parent is undeniably painful – especially for a child – Tsabari’s father bequeathed his young ... Read More »

January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller

By Caelum Vatnsdal

The maxim that there are no small parts, only small actors gets inverted wonderfully in Caelum Vatnsdal’s You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me. This voluminous appreciation of the American character actor Dick Miller ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Northern Wildflower: A Memoir

By Catherine Lafferty

Reading Catherine Lafferty’s memoir Northern Wildflower, I kept wondering if my responses to it made me a morally reprehensible human being, a Donald Trump of the reviewing world. How can a story of growing up ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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