April 2009
Sup, homie? Feeling like a noob, unable to keep up with the increasing pace of language change? What with computer ...
April 2009
James Cummins, author of the obliquely titled Ambrosia: About a Culture, is quite right when he argues that ...
October 2008
The authors of this book have set themselves the task of examining, among other things, humanity's "ecological ...
October 2008
If recent coverage in our media is to be believed, we Canadians are increasingly worried about our food. More ...
October 2008
When Bob W. White began his ethnography of dance music and politics in Zaire, the place was inseparable from its ...
October 2008
Mary Soderstrom sets out her bias in the first chapter. She describes house hunting in Montreal many years ago, as ...
October 2008
Chances are that on any given day, you have been an intentional or unintentional audience to dozens of musical ...
July 2008
A nine-year-old explained the difference between watching television and listening to an oral storyteller: "When I ...
July 2008
One of the many good things to be said for Claude Arbour is that the title of this book is the only egotistical ...
May 2008
A few weeks ago I visited a Mile End fishmonger. On beds of gleaming ice flanking the squid I was tempted to ...
May 2008
Ulla Ryghe's memoir chronicles 30 years spent behind the scenes of the film industry, recalling her transition ...
May 2008
This biography of Fred Taylor-the lesser known younger brother of the famous Canadian entrepreneur, E.P. Taylor ...