Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #3
While the machine of industry and paper continues on its merciless way, let’s slow down space and time itself by learning about why these Canadian authors wrote these books.
Month: November 2022
Big Men Fear Me by Mark Bourrie
In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of George McCullagh’s inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era.
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, by William Shatner with Joshua Brandon
The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays.
The Battle Cry of the Siamese Kitten by Philipp Schott, DVM
From Dr. Schott’s 30 years in veterinary practice come over 60 heartwarming, funny, and adorable stories about angry pelicans, bug-eyed goldfish, and plenty of cats and dogs.
Canada Wild: Animals Found Nowhere Else on Earth, words by Maria Birmingham, art by Alex MacAskill
A full-colour illustrated guide to Canada’s endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep.
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways.
Excerpt: Makeup Tips From Auschwitz How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life by Tommy Schnurmacher
An excerpt from “Makeup Tips From Auschwitz” by Tommy Schnurmacher
Exit Wounds poems by Tāriq Malik
Exit Wounds is a defiant triumph of the plurality of minority experiences—a poetic chorus of immigrants and their descendants coming home to the truth and power of their many worlds.
This Unlikely Soil: Stories by Andrea Routley
This Unlikely Soil, the sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Andrea Routley, is a quintet of linked novellas exploring the failures of kindness and connection among a rural west-coast community of queer women.
Best Canadian Poetry 2023 by John Barton (Editor)
Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2021.
The Carolyne Van Der Meer Interview
A conversation with Kayla Geitzler and Carolyne Van Der Meer, poet, whose most recent collection is entitled Sensorial.
Shadows and Light: A Physician’s Lens on COVID by Heather Patterson, MD
Editor’s note: this review previously appeared on the Atlantic Books Today website as part of our ongoing cooperation with them. When I picked up this book, I could feel it. Something was not quite right – this book does not behave as any other book. Yes, it has covers, pages, pictures and binding – but …
The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War, Revised Edition by Merrily Weisbord
Lauded as the most eloquent book about Canadian communists and written like drama, The Strangest Dream animates the history and life of militants from the 1930’s to the 1956 Khruschev revelations about Stalin.
Behind the Mic: Five Decades of Covering the News in the Maritimes By Rick Howe
With close to 50 years in the broadcast industry in Atlantic Canada, Rick Howe has been there, seen it and done it.
The Great Saint John Fire of 1877: The rise, destruction and recovery of Canada’s leading port city by Mark Allan Greene
What most of us don’t know is this: it was the single most devastating urban fire in the 19th century in North America, eclipsing the more famous fires in Boston and Chicago.
