Non-Fiction

Margaret Macdonald: Imperial daughter

Mann’s exploration of Margaret Macdonald’s world is both scholarly and readable. It rarely bogs the reader down ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Adaptable House

In his new book Avi Friedman, director of the Graduate Housing Program at McGill, persuasively lays out his ...

By Pamela Plumb

Alexander Brott: My Lives in Music

Classical musicians have to lead many lives. At the very least most performers make ends meet through teaching; ...

By Brian MacMillan

When Grownups Play at War

Since retiring from her position as professor of chemistry at a Quebec university, Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda has ...

By Andrea Belcham

A Life of the Twentieth Century

(Reviewed with When Grownups Play at War by Ilona Flutsztejn-Gruda) While the heroine of Irene Even’s lengthy ...

By Andrea Belcham