Non-Fiction

Life on the Home Front

andy production dropped. Butter was hard to get. Women joined the workforce. And tens of thousands of men ...

By Dane Lanken

The Secret of the Blue Trunk

here are some books that deserve to be read in one sitting. When read uninterrupted, their narrative power ...

By Lesley Trites

The Orphanage

lthough the back cover of Richard Bergeron’s autobiography, The Orphanage, suggested the book ...

By Oksana Cueva

Going Too Far

oing Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown is the latest collection of non-fiction by Ishmael ...

By Jean Coléno

An Illustrated History of Quebec

rom the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 up to Bill 101 and Bill 22, and the CEQ and the FTQ, the ...

By Dane Lanken

Brain Wars

or a study on the nature of consciousness, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard’s Brain Wars makes for ...

By Sarah Fletcher

Rue Fabre

here should be more books like this: amiable, interesting, fun to read; a blend of memoir and history and social ...

By Dane Lanken

Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs

Elizabeth Hillman Waterston was preparing for her first semester at McGill University in 1939 when Britain declared war on Germany.

By Kate Forrest

The Sweet Sixteen

n 1904, sixteen Canadian women set out on the Canadian Pacific Railway to the St. Louis World’s Fair. Dubbed ...

By Anna Leventhal

Traces of the Past

Sara Ferdman Tauben is the archaeologist who stays at the dig after all the others have gone home.

By Leila Marshy

The Canadian Fuhrer

The Canadian Führer explores the life and impact of a virulent anti-Semite, Adrien Arcand (1899–1967). Now largely forgotten, Arcand achieved notoriety during the 1930s as the charismatic head of a series of far-right organizations and newspapers.

By Jean Coléno