Scotty Bowman: A Life in Hockey

As the NHL’s reigning game tactician, Scotty Bowman has a legendary reputation. He is the leader in coaching victories and has navigated eight teams (in three different cities) to Stanley Cup wins – which ties ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

By Liona Boyd

On grade 2 talent day, I stood before the class in kilt and Anne Shirley puffed sleeves to sing “My Favourite Things,” which I’d memorized off a scratchy Sound of Music album. I remembered all ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

On a Personal Note

By Rita MacNeil with Anne Simpson

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

By Matthew Teitelbaum, Jessica Bradley, eds.

The catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s retrospective of Betty Goodwin is a solid document of 50 years of work. There are colour plates galore of the Montreal artist’s striking images, like her Swimmer ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Archive for Our Times: The Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay

By Dean J. Irvine, ed.

This volume of poems – previously uncollected and unpublished – by modernist writer Dorothy Livesay is an invaluable addition to the poet’s oeuvre. Editor Dean Irvine has produced a work that will satisfy scholar and ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Free the Children

By Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major

One has to read autobiography with a skeptical eye. Most memoirists, being human, tend to present themselves in the best possible light and to employ selective amnesia, especially when a ghostwriter is holding the pen. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence

By John Starnes

John Starnes has had a long career in External Affairs and as director-general of the RCMP Security Service. He is also the author of five spy novels. Closely Guarded is a personal narrative of Starnes’ ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Anything for a Laugh

By Eric Nicol

Memoirs are reader favourites, especially those that delve into salacious confession. The more gender bending, spouse swapping, and drug-taking the author exposes, the more copies they sell. Anything for a Laugh, award-winning author and humorist ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff

The main challenge of capturing Isaiah Berlin as a biographical subject is that he was a talker. Philosophers are said to privilege the spoken over the written word, but even among his philosophical peers his ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir

By Barry Callaghan

Early in his memoir Barry Callaghan describes his younger self standing outside his house, gazing at an upper window where his father, novelist Morley Callaghan, is at work. It is nighttime and Callaghan père appears ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Scotty Bowman: A Life in Hockey

In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

On a Personal Note

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

Archive for Our Times: The Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay

★ Free the Children

Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence

Anything for a Laugh

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir

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