January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
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 »
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
“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
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
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
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
Stanley Péan certainly knows his way around a cab. By his own admission, the Haiti-born, Quebec-raised author and Radio Canada broadcaster spends an inordinate amount of time (and money) getting chauffeured around in taxis. In ... Read More »
December 3, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
For horror fans, Cujo is the story of a rabid dog made famous by Stephen King. For hockey fans – especially those partial to the Toronto Maple Leafs – Cujo is Curtis Joseph, one of ... Read More »
November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
James FitzGerald’s second book, What Disturbs Our Blood, explored his family’s history of mental illness and his attempt to understand his father’s suicidal impulses. (The book won the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.) In Dreaming ... Read More »
October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The image that comes to mind when thinking of early 20th century Canadian painting, particularly from Toronto, is likely the landscaped vistas created en plein air by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. But ... Read More »
October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography