April 2006
When asked to review Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel, I agreed with alacrity. As an ...
April 2006
"Stories aren't a luxury," the novelist Robert Stone once said, "they're as necessary as breathing." They're also ...
December 2005
When asked to choose a favourite Montreal book I checked my shelves for survivors of too-infrequent purges to ...
December 2005
This is a how-to book with a difference. Are you at a "certain age"? Worried that you will have a stroke? Develop ...
December 2005
In this slim volume Tkach relates the events in her life that made her rediscover a lost talent - speaking with ...
October 2005
William Johnson’s biography of Stephen Harper ends in April 2005, with the Conservatives well ahead in the polls ...
October 2005
Naim Kattan is one of the grand old men of Quebec letters. Winner of Quebec’s prestigious Prix ...
October 2005
Mann’s exploration of Margaret Macdonald’s world is both scholarly and readable. It rarely bogs the reader down ...
October 2005
Marcie Frank’s book details some of the ways in which Gore Vidal’s novels and essays have benefited from or been ...
October 2005
In his new book Avi Friedman, director of the Graduate Housing Program at McGill, persuasively lays out his ...
October 2005
Byron Rempel could write for stand-up comedy. He’s funny, entertaining, slightly offensive, and best of all, a ...