Memoir & Biography

Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border

Marina Sonkina In Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border, Marina Sonkina renders the impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in startling, intimate details: the toothless woman who spent her savings on a pair of dentures, ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman

By Éloïse Marseille

Coming of age as a young woman at any time is both harrowing and darkly funny. Éloïse Marseille has captured the highs and lows of this life stage for readers who grew up in the ... Read More »

November 22, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist

By Dustin Galer

A good biography is like a dollhouse, the kind where you can swing open one side and see the rooms in a sort of cross-section. You can lean back and see how the thing works ... Read More »

November 14, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families

By R.H. Thomson

What insights emerge when we linger by the ghost light? Whose stories impress us with their significance, and whose spirits speak to us? These are questions that Canadian actor and playwright R.H. Thomson extends to ... Read More »

November 8, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny

By Mike Barnes

The challenge of a memoir is to captivate the reader through a narrative form that matches function. Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny is a shape-shifting account speckled with ghost marks ... Read More »

November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey With a Scar(f)

By Monia Mazigh

There’s something about Monia Mazigh’s Gendered Islamophobia that is reminiscent of texts such as The Communist Manifesto and Witches, Midwives, and Nurses. These works – short and to the point – were intended by their ... Read More »

November 1, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Race & Ethnic Relations

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy

By Jason Bell

In Cracking the Nazi Code, University of New Brunswick professor Jason Bell describes how Canadian Winthrop Bell (no relation) tried to warn the world about the rise of far-right extremism in Germany after the First ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

By Rob Goodman

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life

By Maria Coffey

While in her twenties, Maria Coffey endures not one but two life-changing events: a near-drowning in Morocco, and the tragic disappearance of her then-boyfriend, British mountaineer Joe Tasker, on the Northeast Ridge of Everest. Hoping ... Read More »

October 4, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Travel

When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation

By Tara Sidhoo Fraser

If such a thing as a typical amnesia memoir exists, it’s fair to say that Tara Sidhoo Fraser’s debut, When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation, is not it, though “amnesia ... Read More »

September 13, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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