Memoir & Biography

If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture

While still an adolescent living in Israel, Moshe Safdie once received a report card in which his teacher wrote: “Moshe is unable to control his spirits.” Now, in his 80s, Safdie still cannot be contained, ... Read More »

November 22, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

My Road from Damascus

By Jamal Saeed

Jamal Saeed’s memoir My Road from Damascus begins not in Damascus, but in a small village in northern Syria named Kfarieh (often spelled as Kafriyah) several hours away from the capital. Saeed spends the ... Read More »

November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ 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

Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

By Tara McGuire

When Tara McGuire’s son Holden died from an accidental opioid overdose at the age of 21, she was flattened by grief. There is no playbook for how to mourn the loss of your child, particularly ... Read More »

September 28, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, 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

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

By Samuel LeBaron

It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »

August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

★ Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By Kate Beaton

More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. ... Read More »

August 24, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical

By Gerald Hannon

“I keep few secrets,” writes activist and journalist Gerald Hannon. This proves true in his frank and refreshing memoir, Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical. A titan of Canadian queer ... Read More »

July 6, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay

By Merilyn Simonds

Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »

June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

By Sina Queyras

Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »

June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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