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Going Some Place: Creative Non-fiction Across Canada

In her introduction to Going Some Place, editor Lynne Van Luven acknowledges that creative non-fiction is a “hybrid genre,” difficult to clearly define and often seen as fancy travel reportage or postmodern personal essay writing. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist

By Elizabeth Simpson

The title of this memoir might lead the reader to expect a dishy, bitchy, spaghetti-strapped session with a Helen Fielding or a Melissa Bank, the top-girls in the urban dating adventures genre. But the reader ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Pain: Journeys Around My Parents

By Keith Garebian

Keith Garebian’s background is rich with potential autobiographical material. Born to an Armenian father and a mother of mixed Indian and English ancestry, he spent his early years in the polyglot expatriate community in Bombay. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost World of Dinosaurs and Birds

By Wayne Grady

Old dinosaurs never die, they just evolve into something else,” might make a good motto for many of today’s paleontologists. Going beyond the strict boundaries of the all-the-dinosaurs-were-killed-by-a-meteorite theory, cutting-edge paleontologists now believe that a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Tropic of Hockey

By Dave Bidini

Dave Bidini – of the rock band the Rheostatics – has a level of enthusiasm for “our game” that goes beyond fanaticism. Words with religous associations spring to mind: reverence, veneration, adoration, worship. In his ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Rights Revolution

By Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff’s The Rights Revolution, the latest in CBC’s Massey Lectures series, probes the international growth of rights consciousness, with particular reference to Canada. The book was written during a sojourn in Banff and appears, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit

By Margaret Somerville

To read Margaret Somerville is to be exposed to terms, ideas, and questions that, at the dawn of the new millennium, seem initially archaic. Words like “ethics,” “morality,” and “evil” seem, in our modern world, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Lost Classics

By The Editors of Brick

You can never have too many books. I remember Diane Schoemperlen saying that in an interview, though I can’t recall the context. The interviewer, I’m guessing, was in Schoemperlen’s house, and maybe in a moment ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Jamie Kennedy’s Seasons

By Jamie Kennedy

Jamie Kennedy is certainly one of Canada’s most famous chefs, and arguably one of the most important too. In the 1980s, at the Toronto restaurant Scaramouche, he and Michael Stadtländer functioned as the harbingers of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Our Century: The Canadian Journey in the Twentieth Century

By Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein

Robert Bothwell, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, and J.L. Granatstein, the former director of the Canadian War Museum, are both respected authors of Canadian history books. In Our Century, they combine ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

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