June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »
Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »
June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It’s an awesome time to be reading trans literature. Having long toiled to carve out spaces for their stories, trans writers have deservedly garnered a newfound attention and a growing readership in Canada and beyond. ... Read More »
June 20, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences
In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »
June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In the first two pages of her new memoir, Yasuko Thanh delivers a fully formed portrait of an adolescence lived in a world of sheer contrasts. By the time she is 12 years old, Thanh ... Read More »
May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »
February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
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
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
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 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