February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
From Paul Bowles’ Morocco to the San Francisco of the Beats, Literary Trips collects short literary memoirs with a travel bug twist and travelogues with a literary bent. Like many collections of essays, it is ... Read More »
How well – no, make that how unwell – do we know our parents? Ten years ago, when my grandmother died, after the estate had been lawyered at and tidied away, a bequest of her ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Pauline Johnson, of both Mohawk and Euro-Canadian ancestry, was a musical performer, champion of first nations’ rights, and an independent, self-supporting woman as well as a writer. For decades after her death in 1913, she ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Len Marchand has struggled for native rights throughout his political career. Breaking Trail chronicles his 33 years in politics; he started in 1965, as a 31-year-old minister’s assistant in the Liberal party, and finished in ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Howard Hewer is lucky to be alive. On more than one occasion he came close to becoming one of the 16,953 Canadian airmen who died in the Second World War. In for a Penny, In ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Walking down a back alley one summer, I came upon an elderly lady standing behind a gated fence, on the verge of tears. “Please help me,” she said desperately, “I’ve got to get out.” Thinking ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
This is a gentle, fragrant little memoir with a powerful kick: the immense sentimental appeal of visiting one’s unspoiled ancestral village in the Old Country. In this fantasy dream we all have of our ethnic ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
We take this journey through the eyes of William Kaplan’s father, Igor, who was nine years old when he escaped with his little sister and parents from Lithuania in 1940. As Igor’s Jewish parents feel ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
James Chatto, Toronto Life’s gourmand-about-town for the past decade, has seen – and tasted – it all. His book is at once memoir and narrative history of the rise and rise of Toronto’s restaurant scene. ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The Selected Writings of Brian Mulroney. The Philosophy of John Diefenbaker. The unlikeliness of such books throws into relief how unusual Pierre Trudeau was among Canadian prime ministers. In addition to governing the country for ... Read More »
February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography