Reviews

A Brief History of Anxiety … (Yours and Mine)

In A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine), author Patricia Pearson recounts her battle with the mother of all psychological monsters. Afflicted with a debilitating form of anxiety from an early age, the author ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain

By Reinhold Kramer

Mordecai Richler could not resist provocation; it was an urge that seemed to be written into his genes. He provoked the francophones of his home province of Quebec. He provoked Canadian nationalists and feminists and ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters

By Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, eds.

While the traditional handwritten love letter may have lost its preeminence in the electronic age, editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have attempted to resurrect the art of literary lovemaking with this anthology. Each of ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857

By David A. Wilson

For those who would lament the dullness of Canadian history, University of Toronto professor David A. Wilson presents the life of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, who has been alternately described as a martyr (for being the ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America

By Chris Wood

Growing out of an award-winning piece that veteran journalist Chris Wood wrote for The Walrus, Dry Spring exhaustively reports from dozens of sites in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico that have experienced firsthand the effects ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-torn Netherlands

By Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski

As the chasm widens between the current generation of parents that protects its children against every germ, scrape, or slight, and the generation preceding it, born into a world at war, this memoir is a ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Sealed Letter

By Emma Donoghue

In 1864, divorce was still rare in Britain (as elsewhere), and the real one that Emma Donoghue forensically reconstructs in her new novel was a national scandal. The wronged vice-admiral Henry Codrington and his sexually ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My White Planet

By Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman’s new collection of stories is something of a rarity in Canadian short fiction. It does not follow the tried-and-true template of the traditional Chekhovian story, which prizes naturalism and a familiar narrative ... Read More »

March 17, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Sugar: A Bittersweet History

By Elizabeth Abbott

Everyone knows too much sugar is bad for you. But after reading Elizabeth Abbott’s brilliant and assiduously researched Sugar, the truth of exactly how bad will become clear. Abbott takes a spoonful of sugar and ... Read More »

March 3, 2008 | Filed under: History

Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting

By Carl Honore

With Under Pressure, Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow, aims his sights on the youngest members of society. Using research studies and hundreds of interviews, he has pulled together a comprehensive look at ... Read More »

February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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