Excessive Love Prostheses

Margaret Christakos quotes fellow poet Lola Lemire Tostevin in the prologue to Excessive Love Prostheses: “the amputated/truncated text/follows an imaginary line/and grows/extravagant.” Reading the poems that follow, I would have to place the word “sometimes” ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Cartography and Walking

By Adam Dickinson

Too often young poets embark on their first book as casually as they’d submit to a first date: with little to lose and seemingly nothing better to do that night. So it can feel like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life

By David Kuhl, MD

It was only a matter of time before a book on dying joined the already groaning shelf of “how to” books. What Dying People Want is a valuable contribution – a frank, informed and compassionate ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Restless Gods: The Renaissance of Religion in Canada

By Reginald W. Bibby

University of Lethbridge sociologist Reginald Bibby has been surveying Canadian religious habits and attitudes since 1975, earning him the nickname “Bad News Bibby” in some religious circles for his dire predictions about the future of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Biker Who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter

By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray , trans.

In September 2000, veteran reporter Michel Auger was shot six times in the parking lot of Le Journal de Montréal. Many English-speaking Canadians, unfamiliar with Auger’s work in the French-language newspaper, discovered that the reporter ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Arrivals: Stories from the History of Ontario

By John Bentley Mays

In Arrivals: Stories from the History of Ontario, author and cultural commentator John Bentley Mays, himself an arrival from America’s deep south, presents some interesting tales from his new home’s past. The sixth in Penguin ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: History

Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship

By Brenda Cox

In a way, the title of this book is a misnomer, since most of the conversations author Brenda Cox has in this engaging memoir are with herself. Cox’s life is transformed by her eight-year relationship ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat

By James King

The soundtrack to James King’s moving portrait of our own diminutive colossus, Farley Mowat, would have to be Neil Young’s “Old Man.” King identifies the key relationship in Mowat’s life as that with his difficult, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Really Scary Gifts of Shiva

By John Scott with Ann MacDonald

Readers tend to forgive memoir writers the indulgence of scripting their lives as coherent narratives connected by subtle transitions and dramatic plot points, but only so long as their stories are compelling. There is no ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen

By Graeme Gibson et al, eds.

Describing himself as “a self-hating Jew from Ottawa,” Matt Cohen lived a writing life governed by anomaly, paradox, and contradiction. In short, he was a true Canadian. Always the outsider, Cohen was a highly professional ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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