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Souwesto Home

The thematic keystone to Souwesto Home, the latest collection of poetry from Ontario writer James Reaney, comes late in the volume, in the closing lines of “Ice Cream,” a poem that begins with “the local ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Nothing for Granted: Tales of War, Philosophy, and Why the Right Was Mostly Wrong: Selected Writings 2000-2003

By Mark Kingwell

We have hardly set foot upon the deck of Nothing for Granted, University of Toronto philosophy professor Mark Kingwell’s disappointing and haphazard collection of columns from the National Post, when the author himself rings the ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Windshift Line: A Father and Daughter’s Story

By Rita Moir

Rita Moir’s memoir The Windshift Line has a prologue in which the five-year-old Rita is helping her father in his workshop, where he is making arrows. She is entranced: “I get to stand watching my ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life

By Heather Menzies; $

It has become axiomatic that nobody has “time” anymore: time for family, time to finish a day’s work, time for introspection. And despite the ubiquity of computers and related technologies, such as email, voicemail, and ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

My Union, My Life

By Jean-Claude Parrot

While Canadians have decidedly divided views on the benefits of organized labour, there’s no doubt that the paucity of books on the movement’s struggles makes it easy to forget that paid maternity leave and work-free ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Madeleine Parent, Activist

By Andrée Levesque, ed.

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Canada and the Liberation of The Netherlands, May 1945

By Lance Goddard

Much is made of the special and enduring friendship between the Dutch and Canadians that began with the triumphant arrival of liberation forces in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in May 1945. The arrival of Canadian soldiers ... Read More »

May 16, 2005 | Filed under: History

British Columbia: Land of Promises

By Patricia E. Roy and John Herd Thompson

Patricia Roy and John Herd Thompson’s book on B.C. closes with, “All you have to do is wake up in B.C. to realize how lucky you are.” This is just as well because, as the ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

The Molly Fire

By Michael Mitchell

The Molly Fire is an unconventional book. More anthropological than a memoir, too fragmented for any strong narrative lifeline, this book is a miscellany in the best, most exploratory and curious sense of the word.Photographer, ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War 1939-1945

By J.L. Granatstein

If Canada came of age during the First World War, then the Second World War brought the country to robust adulthood. In his illustrated history of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War, historian J.L. ... Read More »

May 11, 2005 | Filed under: History

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