July 4, 2017 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography
On February 17, 2013, five men set out from Woods Harbour, Nova Scotia, aboard a 12-metre fishing boat called the Miss Ally. Despite a non-functional spotlight and warnings that a massive winter storm was approaching, ... Read More »
Given that the one absolute certainty about life is that it will end, it would make sense for adults to come to psychological terms with the fact of their own deaths and consider the effect ... Read More »
June 12, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
According to the book’s afterword, Antanas Sileika’s new memoir originated in a conversation between the author, his wife, Snaige, and ECW Press co-publisher Jack David at a bar in Windsor, Ontario, during that city’s Bookfest. ... Read More »
June 8, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
On paper, Sandra Perron was the perfect soldier: a fit, fearless warrior who earned top marks in training, was comfortably bilingual, unquestionably dedicated to the Canadian Forces, and rose to become the first female officer ... Read More »
May 26, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
One of the most dismal consequences of the Internet’s cultural ubiquity has been the demise of the personal letter. Not surprisingly, the loss is felt especially where writers are concerned. Though there has always been ... Read More »
May 17, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences
Just Jen chronicles author Jen Powley’s life with multiple sclerosis. Forthright, illuminating, and frequently moving in her narration, Powley addresses the clichés of typical illness stories upfront. Facing the reality of her diagnosis as a ... Read More »
May 11, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Where it Hurts, by University of Northern British Columbia associate professor Sarah De Leeuw, details (among other things) the author’s life and times as a restless yet perceptive resident of remote outposts in northern B.C., ... Read More »
May 3, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »
January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples
For more than two decades, Roméo Dallaire, a retired lieutenant-general in the Canadian Armed Forces, has borne the inconceivably heavy weight of representing the public face of the international community’s failure to prevent the 1994 ... Read More »
January 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The theme of healing is present in two recent non-fiction books by indigenous authors. But each author approaches the process of healing, and the question of what needs to be healed in the first place, ... Read More »
January 24, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs