October 26, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Race & Ethnic Relations
“The naming of a child for Inuit is ceremonial,” writes Norma Dunning in her new nonfiction work Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother. She describes how ... Read More »
When Tara McGuire’s son Holden died from an accidental opioid overdose at the age of 21, she was flattened by grief. There is no playbook for how to mourn the loss of your child, particularly ... Read More »
September 28, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
In Try Not to Be Strange, Edmonton author (and publisher of Hingston & Olsen Publishing) Michael Hingston happens upon the work of Javier Marías, the famous Spanish writer and translator, and finds an odd thread ... Read More »
September 14, 2022 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »
August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography
More than a decade after the release of her first bestselling comics collection Hark! A Vagrant, Cape Breton cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with her first long-form graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. ... Read More »
August 24, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
“I keep few secrets,” writes activist and journalist Gerald Hannon. This proves true in his frank and refreshing memoir, Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous: The Making of an Unrepentant Sex Radical. A titan of Canadian queer ... Read More »
July 6, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Anyone who has studied Canadian history has likely seen a photograph of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, even if unknowingly. She’s crouching in the background in one of the most famous images of the infant Dionne ... Read More »
June 21, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »
June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Five years before his fatal heart attack in 1996, Dutch theologian, psychologist, and teacher Henri Nouwen’s outlook on life was changed by a trapeze act high up in a circus tent. For Nouwen, the ... Read More »
May 3, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Never forget. This is the rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. Yet Holocaust denial is widespread and global anti-Semitism is on the rise. There is an epidemic of both ignorance and disinformation about the ... Read More »
April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Graphica, Memoir & Biography, Reviews