In 1972, Idi Amin had a dream in which God told him to expel Uganda’s 80,000 ethnic Indians. They had 90 days to leave. Set during this tumultuous period, Child of Dandelions is a stirring ... Read More »
October 24, 2008
Love of place is a staple of poetry. (Seamus Heaney, for instance, would be a very different poet without Irish peat bogs.) All the same, it can be a tough theme to make work over ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
In this, her fourth collection, St. Francis Xavier University professor Jeanette Lynes gives us a poetic biography of 1960s diva Dusty Springfield. Lynes is perhaps best known as a funny writer, and while It’s Hard ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry
In Ambrosia, Montreal author James Cummins attempts to give readers a snapshot of the history, music, and culture of electronic dance music while also contextualizing it with other music and art movements throughout history. Using ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
Marie-Anne Lagimodière is an excellent subject for a biography: she was the first white woman to follow her coureur de bois husband into the bush, she witnessed the war between the Hudson’s Bay Company and ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History
Nostalgic books lamenting the past and the dwindling of our flora and fauna have been thick on the ground recently, and many have been memorable. (Tim Bowling’s The Lost Coast and Terry Glavin’s Waiting for ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The new book by longtime CBC foreign correspondent Patrick Brown could very easily have been three books. First, there are the bare bones of a confessional memoir. Brown is very frank about his struggles with ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
From May through August 2006, Canadian soldiers fought a running battle against Taliban insurgents in the Panjwayi district southwest of Kandahar, the Afghan provincial capital. In the most intense fighting the Canadian army has conducted ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: History
Proponents of low-fat diets have routinely represented animal fats such as butter, lard, beef tallow, chicken skin, suet, and others as veritable poisons to be ruthlessly excised from our diets. Turns out, says Jennifer McLagan ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink
The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment
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