Memoir & Biography

Jew and Improved: How Choosing to Be Chosen Made Me a Better Man

Benjamin Errett’s memoir about his conversion to Judaism upon becoming engaged to a Jewish woman has at its centre a potentially interesting subject, but the author squanders opportunities to explore his spiritual journey in any ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude

By Emily White

In recent years, the memoir has shifted from the tell-all to the personal essay, and from there it has branched out into various forms of creative non-fiction: often beautiful me-centered takes on some aspect of ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

I Am Here and Not Not-There

By Margaret Avison

A high-school teacher once told a young Margaret Avison to eschew the first person singular in her writing for 10 years. It was a directive the naturally withdrawn Avison readily took to heart. Nevertheless, the ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000

By John English

John English was given a tremendous opportunity, but one that came loaded with risk, when he was invited by the executor and family of Pierre Elliott Trudeau to write the former prime minister’s biography, for ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Frank McKenna: Beyond Politics

By Harvey Sawler

A frequent criticism of political journalists is that they get too close to the people they are covering. On the other hand, biographers are sometimes seen by their subjects as having betrayed their trust (think ... Read More »

January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

You Can’t Say That in Canada: Canada’s Most Influential Columnist Reflects on Life, Politics, and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Margaret Wente

“Lots of people tell me that they don’t always agree with what I write but like reading me anyway,” claims Margaret Wente in the introduction to her new book, which collects columns written for The ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

After the Falls

By Catherine Gildiner

After the Falls picks up where Catherine Gildiner’s best-selling 1999 memoir, Too Close to the Falls, leaves off, chronicling the author’s teens in suburban Buffalo, where her family moved in 1960 to start fresh after ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Searching for Justice

By Fred Kaufman

The recent high-profile criminal charges facing former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant have a lot of Canadians thinking about the concept of justice – not just in terms of the letter of the law, but ... Read More »

December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Burmese Lessons: A Love Story

By Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most notably ... Read More »

October 19, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son

By Ian Brown

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities ... Read More »

October 16, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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