In the memoir Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother, Mary Melfi takes up a daunting task: she sets ...
By Gina Roitman
Non-Fiction
Erin Mouré is known as a "difficult" poet. Her tendency to "push words forward and make them tumble" rarely lulls ...
By Anna Leventhal
Montreal Confidential was first published in 1950, at the height of this city's rip-roaring years as an ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
Academics just can't seem to get it right.
In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift ridiculed how removed ...
By Eric Boodman
Did you know that the word potato comes from the Taino word batata? Or that the word chipmunk comes from ...
By Raquel Rivera
Want to buy a thick black book replete with salaciousness and skullduggery?
In The Black Book of Canadian ...
By Brian Campbell
With the release of Frank Mackey's Done with Slavery, Black historians may be buoyed by a credible addition ...
By Dr. Dorothy Williams
These ten disparate essays by as many authors first appeared as papers at a scholarly conference entitled, ...
By Ted Smith
It's fall. For weeks, the stalls at farmers' markets have spilled over with sensual abundance: zucchini (and more ...
By Anne Chudobiak
In Quebec in 1910 women gave birth at home. They rarely had access to prenatal or postnatal care, relying instead ...
By Kate Forrest
Urban planner Witold Rybczynski was born in 1942 in the Paderewski wing of Edinburgh's General Western Hospital. ...
By Ted Smith
In days gone by, when the BBC's fledgling TV transmitters regularly failed, the Corporation would display a card ...
By Neil Scotten