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Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

The new memoir by celebrated novelist Wayson Choy chronicles not one, but two near-death experiences. Employing a spare, restrained approach, Choy depicts a dramatic series of events through an unexpectedly tranquil filter, highlighting themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Home Free

By Sharon Jennings

If Sharon Jennings’ Home Free, the first volume in Second Story’s new Gutsy Girl series is a sign of what’s to come, then hurrah. This short, sharp story sets the bar high for its followers: ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Kahn & Engelmann

By Hans Eichner; Jean M. Snook, trans.

An emeritus professor of German romantic literature living in Rockwood, Ontario, Hans Eichner published this, his first novel, at the tender age of 79, then had to wait almost a decade after its critical and ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hooked

By Carolyn Smart

In The World’s Wife, contemporary Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy created feminist subversions of a male-centric tradition by giving voice to the wives of significant male figures, both fictional and actual. Carolyn Smart attempts something ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

The Second Blush

By Molly Peacock

Few contemporary poets have achieved the feat that Molly Peacock has: to attract a base of readers who would not ordinarily read poetry. With her first five collections, she has managed to span the gap ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

As affecting the fate of my absent husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

By Erika Behrisch Elce, ed.

Anyone interested in the history of Arctic exploration cannot fail to be drawn into the story of Sir John Franklin. With the fate of his last expedition unknown for over a decade, people around the ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled

By John DeMont

The way things are going these days, the market for books about declining industries may soon be a robust one. But before anyone drafts a pitch for a book on Southern Ontario’s vanishing automobile sector, ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: History

My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life

By Witold Rybczynski

In this lurid era, when the majority of memoirs seem to be written by tweakers, dopers, dipsomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, or nymphomaniacs, it is indeed a relief to encounter the reminiscences of a diligent and industrious man ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

By Alanna Mitchell

We call this planet “Earth,” although water covers about 75% of its surface. This discrepancy has undoubtedly influenced the way we have historically regarded the world’s oceans: as seemingly endless dumping grounds and inexhaustible sources ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Baloney: A Tale in Three Symphonic Acts

By Pascal Blanchet

If Kaspar Hauser hadn’t actually lived, someone would have made him up. Discovered on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 by German authorities, the enigmatic teenage foundling quickly became a sensation across Europe, capturing the ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Graphica

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