Scholars will scoff, but I think one of the best pieces of ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Aboriginal cultures are teaching cultures. Social cohesion – important to cultures in which individuals rely on the assistance of the group – is maintained through doctrine and a sense of personal responsibility taught through story ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
This latest volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s journals takes her from age 54 to 60. At that time, Montgomery was an internationally acclaimed author, mother of two maturing boys, and wife of Ewan Macdonald, Presbyterian ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Fred Varley, acclaimed Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven, is an ideal subject for a biography. His complexity of character warrants illumination, his travels across Canada and elsewhere provide a richly textured ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Calgary artist Hazel Litzgus has compiled a picture book memoir of her childhood on a Prairie farm. Organized into sections according to the seasons, the book uses her watercolour paintings as a stepping stone into ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books
James Houston is the kind of man you’d love to meet at a dinner party – especially after reading Zig Zag, his new memoir. The book is a sequel to his bestseller, Confessions of an ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
What is most striking about Dennis Lee’s latest volume – a collection of essays about poetry and poets – is that it’s poetic in its execution of language and expression of ideas. Body Music is ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Multi-talented Freeman Patterson’s latest collection of photos, taken in an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia, Africa, is sheer magic. The subtle shades of golden images of sand, walls, and open doorways in Odysseys: Meditations ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
In a 1997 essay, Steven Heighton – poet, short story writer, intellectual, registered hunk, and now novelist – warns that “to survive as a full-time writer you have to manage your affairs in a way ... Read More »
February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Susan Devins, the author of Makin’ Muffins, has created a make-your-own bubble gum book and kit.The book is slim, colourful, and glossy. It contains history (Santa Anna, the Mexican general who conquered the Alamo was ... Read More »
February 18, 2004
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