Memoir & Biography

Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada

Stephen Harper has made a significant contribution to the development of conservative policy and politics in Canada, yet remains an unpopular figure with the majority of Canadians. Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada aims ... Read More »

October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Fury’s Hour: A (Sort-of) Punk Manifesto

By Warren Kinsella

The upside of music is its unique power to frame essential moments of a life. The downside, of course, is that these moments – unlike the capsulated eternities of music itself – cannot survive well ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally

By Harrison Wright; George Walker, illus.

Having grown up on a 450-acre apple farm outside Pereaux, Nova Scotia, Harrison Wright is a young man still close, in time and place, to his subject. Wright is 26 years old and works at ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary

By Mary-Louise Engels, $

The latest installment of the Women’s Press Women Who Rock series focuses on the pioneering anti-nuclear crusader Rosalie Bertell, one of the 20th century’s leading researchers of and advocates against the perils of the nuclear ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Windshift Line: A Father and Daughter’s Story

By Rita Moir

Rita Moir’s memoir The Windshift Line has a prologue in which the five-year-old Rita is helping her father in his workshop, where he is making arrows. She is entranced: “I get to stand watching my ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

My Union, My Life

By Jean-Claude Parrot

While Canadians have decidedly divided views on the benefits of organized labour, there’s no doubt that the paucity of books on the movement’s struggles makes it easy to forget that paid maternity leave and work-free ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Madeleine Parent, Activist

By Andrée Levesque, ed.

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Molly Fire

By Michael Mitchell

The Molly Fire is an unconventional book. More anthropological than a memoir, too fragmented for any strong narrative lifeline, this book is a miscellany in the best, most exploratory and curious sense of the word.Photographer, ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Farewell, Babylon: Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad

By Naim Kattan, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Over a lengthy career, Iraq-born Montrealer Naim Kattan has written more than 30 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism, for which he has received a cache of awards, including France’s Légion d’Honneur and the Order ... Read More »

April 18, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Terry

By Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland admits that “the definitive work” on Terry Fox is Leslie Scrivener’s 1981 biography, Terry Fox: His Story. Coupland’s book, in contrast, is more of a tribute in pictures and words, and a reminder ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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