As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »
August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The first time Kamal Al-Solaylee watched Carol Reed’s film Oliver! on TV, he had the sudden wish that he were white. Even as a boy in Cairo, Al-Solaylee had already absorbed what is an all-too-regular ... Read More »
June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Two men could not be more different. Two men could not have more in common. Both filmmakers and careful observers of the human condition, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom have written a love letter to ... Read More »
June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Considering that Barry Avrich’s book about his life in marketing and documentary movie-making presents itself as the story of “a kid from Montreal who has nothing extraordinary” yet “could have so many dreams come true,” ... Read More »
May 30, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »
May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Maria Toorpakai has survived horrors most of her North American readers will never encounter except between the covers of a book: public beatings, confinement, dengue fever, death threats. Born in 1990 in Pakistan’s oppressive northwest ... Read More »
May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
A selection of personal essays by indigenous and non-indigenous writers, In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation is a call for meaningful reconciliation between colonizers and indigenous people. Edited by author and historian ... Read More »
May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Every city has a few hidden destinations where hormonally charged teenagers congregate to drink, smoke, fight, and screw around without the threat of adult intervention. Though Joel Plaskett never really partook in the debauchery – ... Read More »
May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It’s often been observed that we grow more conservative and fixed in our opinions as we age. All the more remarkable, then, is author and broadcaster Michael Coren’s “conversion on the road to the rainbow”: ... Read More »
May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In the summer of 2008, Craig Davidson was at a low point in his life. Having been hailed as “one to watch” thanks to his debut short-story collection, Rust and Bone, expectations were high for ... Read More »
May 3, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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