The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway: African Canadians in Hamilton

By overlooking the lives and achievements of blacks in the larger story of Canada’s development, historians have done a disservice to the thousands of Africans who came to Hamilton beginning in the 1800s, when the ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

Everyday Flexitarian: Recipes for Vegetarians & Meat Lovers Alike

By Nettie Cronish and Pat Crocker

One of the more annoying problems plaguing gastronomy is a fickle public’s appetite for trends. (Remember how low-carb was going to change the world?) The latest dietary fad is the awkwardly named “flexitarianism,” which is ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules

By Jared Bland, ed.

Editor Jared Bland opens this essay anthology with a story about his father. The two of them were walking near their home when 13-year-old Bland said something offensive. Bland’s father pinned him against the wall ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Progress

By Michael V. Smith

The second novel from Michael V. Smith (whose first, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award), opens with a death, seen from a great distance. Helen Massey is picnicking at the grave of ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine

By Michael Riordon

Few conflicts in the world today provoke such a visceral reaction as that between Israel and Palestine. While bookshelves are well stocked with political and historical analyses of the region and its seemingly intractable difficulties, ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World

By Bruce Philp

In the wake of Naomi Klein’s 1999 bestseller No Logo, many pundits and experts have stepped up to take sides in the war on consumerism. Industry supporters have lined up to trumpet the benefits of ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior

By Julie Wheelwright

Julie Wheelwright’s Esther contains two parallel storylines. The first is a biography of the author’s ancestor, Esther Wheelwright, who was born into a strict Puritan family and eventually became a Catholic Mother Superior. The second ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: History

Mid-Life

By Joe Ollmann

When Jean-Jacques Rousseau penned his Confessions in 1769, he probably had no idea he was unleashing a new literary genre upon future readers, one that highlights its authors’ most private and loathsome deeds and desires. ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Paying for It: A Contemporary Defense of the World’s Oldest Profession

By Chester Brown

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

The Lucky Sperm Club

By Rebecca Eckler

Multi-million-dollar inheritances, credit-card-carrying kids, and $10,000 birthday parties for eight-year-olds: welcome to the world of the Lucky Sperm Club. The only way to be admitted to this exclusive group is to be born to insanely ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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