Memoir & Biography

Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland: Letters

By Laura K. Davis (ed.); Linda M. Morra (ed.)

In the 1960s Margaret Laurence was the most highly praised female novelist in the country, the author of such important works as The Tomorrow-Tamer, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Fire-Dwellers. This ... Read More »

May 7, 2018 | Filed under: Anthologies, Memoir & Biography

★ Boys: What It Means to Become a Man

By Rachel Giese

Will boys be boys? In the face of rising feminist visibility and the concomitant backlash against it, what it means to grow up male is increasingly under interrogation. Boys: What It Means to Become a ... Read More »

April 30, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

By Katherine Luo

In 1966, Mao Zedong unleashed the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Estimates suggest that between one and three million people died over the course of 10 years under Mao’s repressive regime. Katherine Luo was sent to a ... Read More »

April 23, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

Call them what you will – brainy, opinionated, witty, cutting, critical, too smart for their own good. In Michelle Dean’s first book, female critics get their due. The book is timely, appearing alongside Women’s Marches ... Read More »

April 19, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip

By Michael Barclay

When the news broke on May 24, 2016, that Gord Downie, the charismatic front man of the Tragically Hip, had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, it seemed the entire country took a sharp inhalation ... Read More »

April 16, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance

By Will Aitken

Among the great Greek tragedies, perhaps no other has spawned as many successful adaptations and critical reflections as Sophocles’s Antigone. Novelist Will Aitken reminds readers why Antigone remains such a universally accessible play in this ... Read More »

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

Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By Carys Cragg

“The world stops caring, and we all fall down.” This sentiment lies at the heart of Carys Cragg’s gripping and immersive memoir, Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father. ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

By John DeMont

In August 2017, the bitter strike between the Halifax Typographical Union and the city’s newspaper, The Chronicle Herald, ended after 19 lengthy months. The paper’s most beloved journalist, John DeMont, was one of the strikers. ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others

By Carol Off

In early 2002, when the world’s attention was aimed at the war in Afghanistan, CBC Television journalist Carol Off landed the thing people in her profession live for – a good “get.” In Kabul, Off ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Way it Is: The Life of Greg Curnoe

By James King

In the 1960s and ’70s, Greg Curnoe was the undeniable “bad boy” of Canadian art, actively courting controversy while also embracing his hometown of London, Ontario, as a key part of his artistic practice. His ... Read More »

December 4, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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