We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays, and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman

Since Adele Wiseman was Margaret Laurence’s close friend for many many years (remember Ella in The Diviners? “So you’re going to put me in a book!” wrote Wiseman to Laurence in 1972), the correspondence between ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Everybody’s Favourites: Canadians Talk About Books That Changed Their Lives

By Arlene Perly Rae, ed.

Reading this book is like eavesdropping at a party where the guests discuss a single theme: important books in their childhood. What fun to learn that Timothy Findley’s childhood favourite, Wild Animals I Have Known, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

To Russia with Fries

By George Cohon with David Macfarlane

George Cohon, the president of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, is not a writer, and doesn’t pretend to be. The last chapter of To Russia With Fries, his memoir about his crusade to establish McDonald’s in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Why I Hate Canadians

By Will Ferguson

The old and often-repeated joke is that when a U.S. magazine held a contest for the world’s most boring headline, the easy winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.” Boring? Of course. But what are we in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Promises, Promises: Breaking Faith in Canadian Politics

By Anthony Hyde

Ottawa writer Anthony Hyde is best known for The Red Fox, the first of his mystery novels. He switches gears with this polemic on what politicians say, why we want them to say it, and ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art

By Larry Hannant ed.

With The Politics of Passion, Victoria author Larry Hannant offers us the collected writings of a Canadian who, in many ways, is better known outside of Canada than in his homeland.Dr. Norman Bethune, born in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

No Holds Barred: My Life in Politics

By John C. Crosbie with Geoffrey Stevens

John Crosbie began his political life as a Liberal in the cabinet of Joey Smallwood, Newfoundland’s first post-Confederation premier. After his 1968 resignation in disgust at Smallwood’s corruption, he switched parties and in 1976 entered ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Defining Moments: Dispatches from an Unfinished Revolution

By Peter C. Newman

In his new book, Peter C. Newman promises to capture defining moments in a national revolution – the transformation of Canada from an isolated and deferential country of two founding peoples into an unruly mix ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: History

Outpost

By Scott Mackay

Science fiction and fantasy still seem to many Canadians like a recent American import, an industry brought in by expatriate writers like Spider Robinson and William Gibson. In fact, our SF tradition goes all the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels