Memoir & Biography

Misfit: autistic. gay. immigrant. changemaker.

“Why were [my employers] paying me for the amount of time and freedom I gave up to be at work each day instead of paying me for what I produced?” This sentence, the rallying cry ... Read More »

January 10, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Art of Leaving: A Memoir

By Ayelet Tsabari

Shortly before her 10th birthday, Ayelet Tsabari was forced to deal with the death of her father. Though losing a parent is undeniably painful – especially for a child – Tsabari’s father bequeathed his young ... Read More »

January 7, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller

By Caelum Vatnsdal

The maxim that there are no small parts, only small actors gets inverted wonderfully in Caelum Vatnsdal’s You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me. This voluminous appreciation of the American character actor Dick Miller ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Northern Wildflower: A Memoir

By Catherine Lafferty

Reading Catherine Lafferty’s memoir Northern Wildflower, I kept wondering if my responses to it made me a morally reprehensible human being, a Donald Trump of the reviewing world. How can a story of growing up ... Read More »

December 13, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Taximan: Stories and Anecdotes from the Back Seat

By Stanley Péan; David Homel (trans.)

Stanley Péan certainly knows his way around a cab. By his own admission, the Haiti-born, Quebec-raised author and Radio Canada broadcaster spends an inordinate amount of time (and money) getting chauffeured around in taxis. In ... Read More »

December 3, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cujo: The Untold Story of My Life On and Off the Ice

By Curtis Joseph; Kirstie McLellan Day

For horror fans, Cujo is the story of a rabid dog made famous by Stephen King. For hockey fans – especially those partial to the Toronto Maple Leafs – Cujo is Curtis Joseph, one of ... Read More »

November 5, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Dreaming Sally: A True Story of First Love, Sudden Death and Long Shadows

By James FitzGerald

James FitzGerald’s second book, What Disturbs Our Blood, explored his family’s history of mental illness and his attempt to understand his father’s suicidal impulses. (The book won the 2010 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.) In Dreaming ... Read More »

October 22, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Peter Clapham Sheppard: His Life and Work

By Tom Smart

The image that comes to mind when thinking of early 20th century Canadian painting, particularly from Toronto, is likely the landscaped vistas created en plein air by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. But ... Read More »

October 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Kinsella

By William Steele

W.P. Kinsella, who died in September 2016, is known for two main bodies of work: baseball stories – most notably the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, which was made into the enormously popular 1989 movie Field ... Read More »

October 11, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Split Tooth

By Tanya Tagaq

As a vocalist and composer, Tanya Tagaq cares little for conventional rules of engagement. An Inuk artist from Iqaluktuutiaq, Tagaq’s performances are innovative and face-meltingly intense, and she has collaborated with a wide array of ... Read More »

September 27, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Memoir & Biography

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