June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
Homes: A Refugee Story is the heart-rending account of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, an Iraqi-born boy who as a child survived the civil war in Syria. Now a high-school student in Edmonton, his story is ... Read More »
Shawn DeSouza-Coelho’s new book about life backstage at what is arguably Canada’s premiere repertory company – Ontario’s Stratford Festival – provides a unique, albeit superficial, glimpse into a little-known and often unheralded part of the ... Read More »
May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In the 1960s Margaret Laurence was the most highly praised female novelist in the country, the author of such important works as The Tomorrow-Tamer, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. This ... Read More »
May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies, Memoir & Biography
Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »
April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »
April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
Call them what you will – brainy, opinionated, witty, cutting, critical, too smart for their own good. In Michelle Dean’s first book, female critics get their due. The book is timely, appearing alongside Women’s Marches ... Read More »
April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
When the news broke on May 24, 2016, that Gord Downie, the charismatic front man of the Tragically Hip, had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, it seemed the entire country took a sharp inhalation ... Read More »
April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Among the great Greek tragedies, perhaps no other has spawned as many successful adaptations and critical reflections as Sophocles’s Antigone. Novelist Will Aitken reminds readers why Antigone remains such a universally accessible play in this ... Read More »
January 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography
“The world stops caring, and we all fall down.” This sentiment lies at the heart of Carys Cragg’s gripping and immersive memoir, Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father. ... Read More »
January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In August 2017, the bitter strike between the Halifax Typographical Union and the city’s newspaper, The Chronicle Herald, ended after 19 lengthy months. The paper’s most beloved journalist, John DeMont, was one of the strikers. ... Read More »
January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography