Reviews

★ Hellgoing

For several years, Lynn Coady – whose 2011 novel, The Antagonist, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize – hosted a “group therapy” advice column for The Globe and Mail, an experience that may ... Read More »

July 15, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

By John Boyko

Confederation may be one of the best-known events in Canadian history, with countless volumes devoted to the subject. Despite this, historian John Boyko manages to find a fresh lens through which to examine this foundational ... Read More »

July 8, 2013 | Filed under: History

The Pope’s Bookbinder

By David Mason

Here’s how David Mason, Toronto’s leading antiquarian book dealer, explains the title of this memoir: in the late 1950s, aged 19, he left Canada, eventually landing in Spain, where he found work as a bookbinder. ... Read More »

July 2, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Small Nouns Crying Faith

By Phil Hall

There are many ways language can be broken down. Some poets choose to slice and slaughter, neatly debriding and deboning, turning metaphors into meat. Others prefer to dissolve aggressively, as if by acid, or gradually, ... Read More »

June 24, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Community

By Ruth Holmes Whitehead

At the outset of the American Revolution, the British governor of Virginia issued a proclamation declaring that slaves of American rebels would be freed if they joined royal forces attempting to restore order. This was ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: History

The History of Montréal: The Story of a Great North American City

By Paul-André Linteau; Peter McCambridge, trans.

Paul-André Linteau’s history of Montreal is such a slim volume, written in such plain language, it runs the risk of being dismissed as a primer. But that would underestimate the author’s ability to distill crucial ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: History

Free Magic Secrets Revealed

By Mark Leiren-Young

In his new memoir, Mark Leiren-Young, winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, reminisces about six months in the late 1970s when he and a group of friends, backed (at least initially) by ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Still Hunting

By Martin Hunter

Director and playwright Martin Hunter, who turns 80 this year, pops up almost everywhere in Canadian stage history and frequently in the arts world generally. Readers of Still Hunting, a companion to his 2008 memoir, ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Memory of Water

By Allen Smutylo

“Since childhood I’ve been both drawn to water and frightened by it,” writes Allen Smutylo, a Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist who has spent 40 years of his professional life exploring the extremes of the ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Writing Life: Journals 1975–2005

By George Fetherling; Brian Busby, ed.

George (formerly Doug) Fetherling has been a fixture on the CanLit scene for nearly half a century. During a prolific and wide-ranging career that has included significant ties to Toronto, Kingston, and Vancouver, Fetherling has ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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