For whatever reason, the 19th-century exploration, predominantly by British crews and ships, of what would become the Canadian Arctic is a big part of this country’s national mythology and cultural consciousness. The official goals of ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History
“Lots of people tell me that they don’t always agree with what I write but like reading me anyway,” claims Margaret Wente in the introduction to her new book, which collects columns written for The ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In One on One, Peter Mansbridge, one of Canada’s best-known TV journalists, collects his most illuminating, engaging, and inspiring interviews from the past 10 years with more than 30 of the world’s most prominent politicians, ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Anthologies
There’s nothing like an economic crash to create a market for financially themed books that are both analytical (focusing on how and why the crash happened in the first place) and prescriptive (suggesting ways out ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
After the Falls picks up where Catherine Gildiner’s best-selling 1999 memoir, Too Close to the Falls, leaves off, chronicling the author’s teens in suburban Buffalo, where her family moved in 1960 to start fresh after ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
There has long existed a relationship between commercial and fine art, notes Christopher Newton, artistic director of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Shaw Festival, in the introduction to this book of over 200 graphic images by illustrator Scott McKowen, ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
It will be interesting to see if Wal-Mart carries Gordon Laird’s new book. Laird repeatedly cites the Arkansas-based super-retailer as the most prominent purveyor of bargains and one of the primary beneficiaries of our lust ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In the West, there is one iconic image that encapsulates the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square: a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks. Equally arresting, but less well known, was ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: History
The recent high-profile criminal charges facing former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant have a lot of Canadians thinking about the concept of justice – not just in terms of the letter of the law, but ... Read More »
December 17, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
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