A nine-year-old explained the difference between watching television and listening to an oral storyteller: "When I ...
By Joan Eyolfson Cadham
Non-Fiction
One of the many good things to be said for Claude Arbour is that the title of this book is the only egotistical ...
By Ted Smith
A few weeks ago I visited a Mile End fishmonger. On beds of gleaming ice flanking the squid I was tempted to ...
By Louise Fabiani
Ulla Ryghe's memoir chronicles 30 years spent behind the scenes of the film industry, recalling her transition ...
By Linda Besner
This biography of Fred Taylor-the lesser known younger brother of the famous Canadian entrepreneur, E.P. Taylor ...
By Mark Heffernan
It's a measure of just how central Mordecai Richler was to the Canadian cultural landscape, and of how much he is ...
By Ian McGillis
The old adage "the personal is political," once a rallying cry for second-wave feminism, continues to serve as a ...
By David Ravensbergen
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Fathers of Confederation, was murdered by a Fenian outside his lodgings on Sparks ...
By Margaret Goldik
David Solway is a brilliant writer. The power of his sentences, amplified by a rich and precisely honed ...
By Mark Heffernan
Although Dick Pound is best known as chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency and IOC vice-president, Janise ...
By Joan Eyolfson Cadham
Howard Richler has made a career out of etymology, and his fifth book is further testimony to his love affair with ...
By Ian Howarth
"If anybody had told me, years ago, that I would one day publish a book of literary criticism, I think I would ...
By Brenda Cockfield