Reviews

The Cannibal’s Wife

As a Catholic missionary in Lesotho, Sister Yvonne Maes found herself with the nickname Madiepetsan after the mythical wife of a cannibal chief, who was constantly escaping her husband’s cooking pot by using simple tricks. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Olga Romanov: Russia’s Last Grand Duchess

By Patricia Phenix

Olga Romanov’s life was largely unremarkable with one exception: her older brother was Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia. The youngest child of a loving father and a distant mother, she was raised in incomparable ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

By M. Owen Lee

This is a quite unnecessary yet quite engaging little book. Father Owen Lee, a life-long operaphile and this country’s most famously perfect Wagnerite, is writing to persuade us that horrible people can create splendid works ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Robertson Davies: For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995

By Judith Skelton Grant, ed.

Robertson Davies was a marvellous letter writer, one of a breed headed for extinction in the e-mail generation. This volume covers Davies’ late career, from age 63 to his death at age 83 in 1995, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Broad Canvas: Portraits of Women by Women

By Linda Rogers, Barbara Pedrick photog.

“You are not mad,” poet Robin Skelton once said to Susan Musgrave: “You are a poet.” At the time – the late sixties – the wiry teenager was hospitalized because everyone else thought she was ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada

By George Bowering

Not so many years ago, when Brian Mulroney led this country into yet another of his misbegotten constitutional adventures, The Globe and Mail ran an editorial reminding readers that Canada was a country-in-progress. We all ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Dionnes

By Ellie Tesher

The story of the Dionne quintuplets is an oft-told tale. Pierre Berton’s book on their miraculous birth during the Depression appeared in 1977. The surviving sisters’ battle for financial justice was headline news in 1998. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent

By Jan Wong

Jan Wong may be her own worst enemy. Anyone not familiar with her work as The Globe and Mail’s talented Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994 should be; otherwise they may dismiss her as the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood

By Wayson Choy

Wayson Choy avoids potential second-novel pitfalls by turning from fiction to non-fiction, following the spectacular success of The Jade Peony with a memoir. The relationship between the two books is so intricate and reflexive that ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Truth and Bright Water

By Thomas King

Cousins Tecumseh and Lum live in the small American border town of Truth. Bright Water, a reserve, is across the river in Canada. One night, the boys see a woman jump into the river. Then, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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