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Tilted: The Trial of Conrad Black

In Tilted, an insightful play-by-play account of one of the more notorious corporate trials of the past few decades, Toronto lawyer and legal pundit Steven Skurka argues that Conrad Black got a raw deal, thus ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap

By Susan Pinker

While psychologist Susan Pinker’s examination of gender in the workplace should arouse a great deal of interest both inside and outside academia, one thing it oughtn’t to do is stir up controversy. However, as the ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

By Daphne Bramham

B.C.’s secluded sect of polygamists is a sore spot that many a lawmaker has poked at over the years. But as Daphne Bramham shows in The Secret Lives of Saints, none have succeeded in healing ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Revolver

By Kevin Connolly

Randomness is central to Toronto writer Kevin Connolly’s poetics. In his previous collection, the Trillium-winning drift, the poems were arranged alphabetically, as if to say that order is irrelevant. In Revolver’s table of contents, titles ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Perils of Empire: America and Its Imperial Predecessors

By James Laxer

The American empire is waning. A neo-conservative, unilateralist America is stuck in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan while at home the economy staggers. Increasingly successful challengers abound: Iran, China, the EU, even Venezuela. Will the ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The New Layman’s Almanac

By Jacob McArthur Mooney

In his debut collection, twentysomething Nova Scotian poet Jacob McArthur Mooney channels the raw and uneasy energy of adolescence. It’s tempting to read the book as autobiography. The poems have all the elements of a ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

Never Sang for Hitler: The Life and Times of Lotte Lehmann

By Michael H. Kater

In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Germans strove to dissasociate themselves from Hitler’s Third Reich. Opera diva Lotte Lehmann vigorously promoted the fact that she, for one, never performed for the Nazis. ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic

By Irene Gammel

Everything seems to be coming up Anne Shirley in this, the centenary of the first publication of Anne of Green Gables. Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: History

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

By Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

In addition to writing 20 novels, 500 short stories, and 500 poems, Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid scrapbooker most of her life. She collected fashion illustrations, fabric swatches, newspaper clippings (of marriages, deaths, and ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Carnivore Chic: From Pasture to Plate, a Search for the Perfect Meat

By Susan Bourette

For Taras Grescoe, the decline of the oceans is personally distressing. A self-described “piscavore” (fish eater) for 10 years running, the Montreal-based food and travel writer is nothing if not adventurous: over the course of ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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