Memoir & Biography

Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes

Scofflaw Phillip Boudreau of Isle Madame, off the southeast coast of Cape Breton, was the kind of guy who would threaten to burn down your house if he had a grudge. He’d steal your lobsters, ... Read More »

November 2, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos

By Steven Heighton

The word “disillusion,” Steven Heighton posits, is something of an anomaly in the English language: a double-negative construction that yields not a positive synthesis but a negative. It’s a “paradox,” Heighton explains, using mathematical principles ... Read More »

October 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ A History of My Brief Body

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

In his highly anticipated memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt – the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize – proves yet again his astonishing linguistic precision and beauty. Reimagining the form and structure of a conventional memoir, ... Read More »

September 24, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews

How to Lose Everything

By Christa Couture

Christa Couture is a singer-songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She is Cree and Scandinavian. She is a mother. She is disabled. She is, as she puts it, “every parent’s worst nightmare.” Couture’s debut memoir details a ... Read More »

September 17, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond

By Sandra B. Tooze

When it comes to questions of provenance, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and who wrote the Band’s songs are a couple of oldies but goodies. Famed literary critic Harold Bloom spent his life highly invested in ... Read More »

June 1, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

By Tessa McWatt

New books by Eternity Martis and Tessa McWatt expertly navigate the experience of coming into their respective authors’ identities as Black women. For Martis, finding a community amid isolation slowly strengthens her. For McWatt, the ... Read More »

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

By Eternity Martis

May 25, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde

By Julie S. Lalonde

There are certain strains of cannabis, which, when vaped, stretch the experience of time to include the distant past, so that one feels they have relived entire lives in an action as brief as washing ... Read More »

April 23, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Out of My Mind: A Psychologist’s Descent into Madness and Back

By Shalom Camenietzki

“Insight” is a word that gets thrown around a lot in psychiatric circles: a patient who has it is someone who understands that they are ill, whereas lack of insight is considered to be a ... Read More »

March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Falling for Myself

By Dorothy Ellen Palmer

Dorothy Ellen palmer entered this world with the deck seemingly stacked against her. Born with congenital abnormalities in both feet to a young single woman unprepared for motherhood, Palmer was eventually adopted by a family ... Read More »

January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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