Cinema makes a unique case study in the field of storytelling. It was invented late enough so its first directors ...
By Ted Smith
Non-Fiction
Unlike any other hockey player, indeed unlike most sports heroes and legends, Quebec's Maurice "le Rocket" Richard ...
By Byron Rempel
Siblin begins "amazingly, for a long time," the Cello Suites were seen as only a collection of exercises. But ...
By Nancy Hausner Golberg
Sup, homie? Feeling like a noob, unable to keep up with the increasing pace of language change? What with computer ...
By Elise Moser
James Cummins, author of the obliquely titled Ambrosia: About a Culture, is quite right when he argues that ...
By Dimitri Nasrallah
The authors of this book have set themselves the task of examining, among other things, humanity's "ecological ...
By Mark Heffernan
If recent coverage in our media is to be believed, we Canadians are increasingly worried about our food. More ...
By Andrea Belcham
When Bob W. White began his ethnography of dance music and politics in Zaire, the place was inseparable from its ...
By Ted Smith
Mary Soderstrom sets out her bias in the first chapter. She describes house hunting in Montreal many years ago, as ...
By Margaret Goldik
Chances are that on any given day, you have been an intentional or unintentional audience to dozens of musical ...
By Louise Fabiani
A nine-year-old explained the difference between watching television and listening to an oral storyteller: "When I ...
By Joan Eyolfson Cadham
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