In 1928 Joshua Whalley left England for better prospects at a bauxite mining town in the Guyanese rainforest. His ...
By Ted Smith
Non-Fiction
The word "amateur" has its origins in the Latin word "amare," to love. Looked at that way, Joan Edward's book ...
By Mary Soderstrom
Margaret Somerville, Founding Director of the McGill Centre for Ethics, Medicine and Law, among other positions, ...
By Mark Heffernan
"English belongs to no one and to everyone," claims Howard Richler. "And why not? It has borrowed from ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Novelist and traveller Mary Soderstrom's Recreating Eden (Véhicule Press 2001) charted a modern interest in ...
By Helen Carroll
Susan Elaine Gray, a research associate at the University of Winnipeg, met storyteller, scholar, musician and ...
By Joan Eyolfson Cadham
The Hero Book is a striking work that defies easy categorization: a hybrid of art and text.
Ironically ...
By Angela Carr
The terms "concentration camp" and "internment" conjure up images of Nazi death camps, and the western internment ...
By Margaret Goldik
This book begins with the prefatory observation that girls "often have been spoken for and about as a homogenized ...
By Andrea Belcham
"The preservation of heritage, like translation, is the process through which objects and memories are selected, ...
By Elise Moser
There are those who think maps are a tool for finding your way around. Then there are people like the young ...
By Ted Smith
On the surface, The Teeth of Time is a simple memoir. Its title is taken from Yeats's "The New Faces," and ...
By Aparna Sanyal