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Nellie McClung

By Charlotte Gray

In the struggle to help Canadians learn more about their past, Penguin Canada has launched a series of mini-histories designed to reach out to the general reader. The Extraordinary Canadians series, edited by John Ralston ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Emily Carr

By Lewis DeSoto

In the struggle to help Canadians learn more about their past, Penguin Canada has launched a series of mini-histories designed to reach out to the general reader. The Extraordinary Canadians series, edited by John Ralston ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Repose

By Adam Getty

There is a line from Adam Getty’s Gerald Lampert Award-winning first poetry collection, Reconciliation, that encapsulates one of his larger thematic concerns: “There// is nothing human here but the usual/ grinding beneath the wheel.”     ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry