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In The World’s Wife, contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy created feminist subversions of a male-centric tradition by giving voice to the wives of significant male figures, both fictional and actual. Carolyn Smart attempts something ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Second Blush

By Molly Peacock

Few contemporary poets have achieved the feat that Molly Peacock has: to attract a base of readers who would not ordinarily read poetry. With her first five collections, she has managed to span the gap ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

By Erika Behrisch Elce, ed.

Anyone interested in the history of Arctic exploration cannot fail to be drawn into the story of Sir John Franklin. With the fate of his last expedition unknown for over a decade, people around the ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled

By John DeMont

The way things are going these days, the market for books about declining industries may soon be a robust one. But before anyone drafts a pitch for a book on Southern Ontario’s vanishing automobile sector, ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life

By Witold Rybczynski

In this lurid era, when the majority of memoirs seem to be written by tweakers, dopers, dipsomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, or nymphomaniacs, it is indeed a relief to encounter the reminiscences of a diligent and industrious man ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

By Alanna Mitchell

We call this planet “Earth,” although water covers about 75% of its surface. This discrepancy has undoubtedly influenced the way we have historically regarded the world’s oceans: as seemingly endless dumping grounds and inexhaustible sources ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Kaspar

By Diane Obomsawin

If Kaspar Hauser hadn’t actually lived, someone would have made him up. Discovered on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 by German authorities, the enigmatic teenage foundling quickly became a sensation across Europe, capturing the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

Baloney: A Tale in Three Symphonic Acts

By Pascal Blanchet

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

The Gift from Berlin

By Lucette ter Borg; Liedewy Hawke, trans.

Memory, war, loss, and forgiveness: these are the features of award-winning novels. The Gift from Berlin, winner of the 2005 National Dutch Debut Prize, attempts to cram all of them between its covers. The novel ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Berlin

By Michael Mirolla

Berlin, from Toronto writer Michael Mirolla, is an ambitious novel concerned with, among many other things, the nature of identity, the weight of history, the significance of catastrophe, and the legacies of both fascism and ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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