Memoir & Biography

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Mistakes to Run With

By Yasuko Thanh

In the first two pages of her new memoir, Yasuko Thanh delivers a fully formed portrait of an adolescence lived in a world of sheer contrasts. By the time she is 12 years old, Thanh ... Read More »

May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

By Samra Zafar with Meg Masters

Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada

By Constance Backhouse

As we navigate feminism’s fourth wave, it can be easy to forget how we got here. The struggles of feminisms past have a lot to teach us about the tactics women marshalled to face down ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Ladies, Upstairs!: My Life in Politics and After

By Monique Bégin

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness

By Adam Pottle

What does it mean to create? And how can one’s circumstances constrain or liberate creativity? Two Canadian academics and authors – Saskatoon’s Adam Pottle and Toronto’s Adrian McKerracher – sensitively and distinctively tackle these questions ... Read More »

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor

By Adrian McKerracher

February 11, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ This One Looks Like a Boy:  My Gender Journey to Life as a Man

By Lorimer Shenher

Ten years ago, I read a book called Almost Perfect. The young-adult novel by Brian Katcher won some awards and was held up as a powerful, nuanced portrayal of a young trans person. But the ... Read More »

January 31, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews