Memoir & Biography

Playing Hard: A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a stroke, he told stories about “the buffoonery of men, brave but foolish men ... Read More »

January 29, 2025 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty

By Bonny Reichert

“We are starving.” It’s a striking turn of phrase to begin a memoir about food and family and survival from Nazi death camps for what is a simple lament about a late lunch during a ... Read More »

January 22, 2025 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Memoir & Biography

I Don’t Do Disability and Other Lies I’ve Told Myself

By Adelle Purdham

The lifelong process of learning, of constantly weaving the tapestry of who you are and who you will be, is never without its challenges. That being said, it’s often easier than the process of unlearning ... Read More »

November 27, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ No Credit River

By Zoe Whittall

When I begin reading Zoe Whittall’s No Credit River, I am on a train. I usually read on the train. As I lean in to highlight certain lines – the pages rest on the foldable ... Read More »

November 6, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Hope Is a Woman’s Name: My Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel

By Amal Elsana Alh’jooj

Hope can be a woman’s name, and it can also be a motivating force. For Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, hope was bestowed upon her at birth when her father decided to call her Amal, which means ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

By Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; with Sean Carleton

The summer of 1990 was bookended by one of the most dramatic events in Canadian history. Thousands of paramilitary Quebec police and Canadian Armed Forces laid siege to the unceded territories of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, ... Read More »

September 25, 2024 | Filed under: History, Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir

By Chase Joynt

In the opening pages of Vantage Points, in a section titled “How This Book Works,” Chase Joynt quotes Douglas Coupland writing about Marshall McLuhan: “Art is art. And an artist, according to Marshall, is someone ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Unwinnable Peace: Untold Stories of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan

By Tim Martin

Three years after the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, Canada’s lengthiest military engagement seems a distant memory, one almost unrecalled by most citizens, even those who can still name Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele as part of this ... Read More »

August 14, 2024 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards

By Jessica Waite

We often turn to guides when things get out of hand or messy and we need something to lead us back to order. A guidebook can offer solutions for regaining control – a guide to ... Read More »

July 31, 2024 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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