Dave Feschuk was very intrigued by the plight of the “highway cowboy,” those drivers who pilot mammoth 18-wheelers down the highway, so much so that the Toronto Star sports reporter spent time riding shotgun in ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Reference
One of the key tricks to writing titles in the inspirational/self-help category is to cross the bridge from one’s own sense of fulfillment at having discovered something unique to developing a language that allows outsiders ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Health & Self-help
Published in conjunction with the first solo exhibition of work by a native artist at the National Gallery of Canada, Norval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist provides readers with a stunning retrospective of the Anishnaabe artist’s works ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
The Nazi Holocaust remains the nadir of human activity on this planet, a Dead Sea of unthinking bestiality and unmitigated evil. Why is it unlike all the other monstrous flowerings of evil that ought to ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: History
Yet another debut collection by a young male author destined to be labelled “edgy,” Nathan Sellyn’s Indigenous Beasts features what is becoming a typical cast of characters for fiction of this ilk: dealers, users, ravers, ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Autobiography is inherently humanizing, breeding a familiarity between reader and author like no other kind of book. The genre gives writers and celebrities the opportunity to reflect on their careers and, for many, to write ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Over the past few decades, the popular lexicon describing police behaviour has expanded to include a number of unique, though unofficial, arrestable offences, including Driving While Black (DWB) and Travelling While Arab (TWA). Officially, such ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Bernice Eisenstein grew up in Toronto as a self-confessed addict of the Holocaust. In her parents’ basement rec room, as her family viewed the Adolf Eichmann trial on television, she sensed the Holocaust’s power in ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The real-life story of the mysterious Madame Zee receives an intriguing treatment in this novel by Pearl Luke. What is curious is that the fictionalized details are almost more compelling than the actual facts, which ... Read More »
June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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