Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

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

★ You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition

By Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom

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

Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business

By Barry Avrich

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

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

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

★ A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

By Katherine Holstein; Maria Toorpakai

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

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (ed.)

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

Nowhere with You: The East Coast Anthems of Joel Plaskett, the Emergency and Thrush Hermit

By Josh O'Kane

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

Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart and Mind Over Same-sex Marriage

By Michael Coren

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

Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077

By Craig Davidson

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

Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution

By Carmen Aguirre

There are few of us whose adult selves are not heavily influenced by our childhoods. All the embarrassing, sad, happy, or frightening personal actions and events we remember, retell, dismiss, or suppress, greatly determine the ... Read More »

April 28, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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