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