Reviews

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

Ira B. Nadel has written authoritatively on the art of biography. He has also had a previous run at the life of Leonard Cohen in a slender volume for ECW, which augured well for a ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography

By Doris Anderson

In an era of post-feminist posturings, of “bad girl,” blame-the-date-rape-victim journalists, and of tell-all “toxic parent” biographies, Doris Anderson’s restrained, dignified, and unabashedly feminist autobiography, Rebel Daughter, is a breath of fresh air.Born illegitimate and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Drumblair

By Rachel Manley

The title of Rachel Manley’s family memoir is odd at first, and therefore intriguing, but by the end it simply seems sentimental. Drumblair, rambling and idiosyncratic, was the house of Norman and Edna Manley, the ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies

By Douglas Fetherling

It seems fitting that Douglas Fetherling has become a Boswell of one of Canada’s great polymaths, the late, learned George Woodcock. He is something of a self-taught renaissance man himself, bidding to be as prolific ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

By Robertson Davies

When Robertson Davies died last December, it wasn’t difficult to predict that posthumous work would soon begin to appear. The Merry Heart, which collects speeches and articles from the novelist’s last 15 years, is the ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

An Ecological Guide to a North Temperate Garden: Bioplanning for the Next Millennium

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Voltaire’s Candide saw a world full of misery, and concluded that one must cultivate one’s garden. Those of us who love gardening anyway will be glad to know that we really can make a difference, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Funny, You Don’t Look Like One: Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway

By Drew Hayden Taylor

The essays and columns collected in this book by half-Ojibway, half-Caucasian playwright Drew Hayden Taylor are short (the longest runs to three pages), and although he sometimes repeats himself, the narrative style of the three- ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Haunted Toronto

By John Robert Colombo

The problem with Haunted Toronto, John Robert Colombo’s new, and I would imagine exhaustive listing of hauntings in the Metro area, is that it hasn’t much to say that hasn’t been said before. Much of ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People

By Arthur J. Ray

In spite of what its first-person title might lead one to think, I Have Lived Here Since the World Began is not a history of Canada’s native people as told by the native people themselves. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea – From the Beginning of Time

By Lesley Choyce

The folk refrain, “Farewell to Nova Scotia, your seabound coast, may your mountains dark and dreary be,” haunts Lesley Choyce’s new history, Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. Throughout his ambitious compilation of the past, ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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Quill and Quire

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen

Rebel Daughter: An Autobiography

Drumblair

★ Way Down Deep in the Belly of the Beast: A Memoir of the Seventies

The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

An Ecological Guide to a North Temperate Garden: Bioplanning for the Next Millennium

Funny, You Don’t Look Like One: Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway

Haunted Toronto

I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People

Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea – From the Beginning of Time

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