978-0-7735-3351-6 September 2007
If exposed to American television advertising in 2008, a being from another planet might well think the primary health care issues for Americans- perhaps for the species in general- are erectile dysfunction and an overactive bladder.
978-0-7735-3244-1 September 2007
This volume critically engages the tropes of a Canadian national identity that the Group of Seven Canadian Landscape Artists and their manipulators define as "northerness" and "wilderness."
978-0-7735-3247-2 April 2008
The committee’s nomination for the 2008 Porter Prize is Cecil Foster’s Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom.
978-0-7735-3360-8 May 2008
In her introduction to Making Witches, Barbara Rieti notes the presence of witchcraft as an offense in a 1729 document appointing justices of the peace to Newfoundland. This is a comment about the times rather than the island in question. Witchcraft as a legal reality was soon to be phased out both in Britain and in Newfoundland which, until the nineteenth century, drew both its legal system and its meagre administration from Britain.
978-0-7735-3365-3 April 2008
The three key men in the Brontë saga have been maligned since their own time until relatively recently. And because Charlotte Brontë's death took place after her marriage to Arthur Bell Nicholls but before she could make it clear whether she would continue with her literary career - though the answer to that riddle is pretty clear to us - Mr Nicholls has been 'fair game' even since before his death.
978-0-7735-3377-6 April 2008
What destroys more writers than sunlight, absinthe addiction and ill-fitting berets combined? Having kids. Which is why an anthology like Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood is such a marvel. Not only is it the first Canadian literary anthology that focuses on mothering and writing, it was edited by three writers who happen to be mothers, Shannon Cowan, Cathy Stonehouse and Fiona Tinwei Lam. A former lawyer and accomplished poet, Lam took time from her busy schedule to nurture the Courier's 10 Questions and discuss mom jeans, her intimate knowledge of Raffi and how much her six-year-old son Robbie gets for allowance.
978-0-7735-3245-8 April 2007
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE – Close to eighty writers, editors, publishers, and book lovers gathered at the stunning Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake on Sunday, June 8, 2008, to hear the announcements of the Adirondack Center for Writing's (ACW's) 3rd annual Adirondack Literary Award winners and to honor regional author Anne LaBastille with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Continue reading "Naomi Guttman wins an Adirondack Literary Award" »
978-0-7735-3356-1 May 2008
What does it take for a woman to reach the pinnacle of political power? Certainly, she needs strength, stamina and the ability to withstand criticism.
But there's more, according to political scientist and psychoanalyst Blema S. Steinberg. In Women in Power, she deconstructs the personalities of three female political leaders -- Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher -- and shows that they shared a marked tendency to dominate and control others.
Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series
By Mary Jane Miller
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Mary Jane Miller sets up a fascinating paradox in Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations People in Canadian Dramatic Television Series, her momentous exploration of the representation of First Nations people in Canadian television. The very first line of the very first chapter is "Start with this: white people should not tell First Nations stories." Miller then proceeds to chronicle virtually all the First Nations stories told through the dramatic series on Canadian television since Radisson, first broadcast in 1957. She is not telling First Nations stories; rather, she is telling on those who have told First Nations stories, or worse, gussied them up to look like what they believe an Indian looks like. "What Does an Indian Look Like?" would in fact be as appropriate a subtitle as Miller's own.
978-0-7735-3377-6 April 2008
Writing a book is a little like raising a child. First, there's a period of gestation, a heady time when all seems possible. Then comes the hard work and eventually, much later, the letting go.
978-0-7735-3355-4 April 2008
Of his prospective biography, Oscar Wilde said it "lends a new terror to death." There are two reasons authors, especially famous ones, dread the genre. First, literary biographies get too much wrong; second, they get too much right. Both occurrences are inevitable; both go with the territory.
978-0-7735-3340-0 May 2008
More than a decade after the Quebec government abruptly closed the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Notre Dame de Grâce, many doctors and nurses who worked there are still angry and bitter about the decision.
Affectionately known as the Queen E, the small community hospital was beloved by its patients, and news of its imminent closing drew thousands of protesters to the streets.
Continue reading "The Life and Death of a Hospital review in The Gazette by Aaron Derfel" »
978-7735-3355-4 April 2008
As I approached the three-quarter mark of Mordecai Richler: Leaving St.Urbain, I found myself reading more and more slowly, and even occasionally setting the book aside. Finally, I realized that I didn’t want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive that I wanted to keep hanging out with the irascible old master.
978-0-7735-3357-8 April 2008
In the summer of 1848, during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine, a band of idealistic revolutionaries tried to spark the starving Irish people into rebelling against their cruel British overlords. But the writers, poets and orators known collectively as Young Ireland weren't able to deliver food to the nation's dying peasants, and the uprising, famously confined to a single incident in the Widow McCormack's cabbage patch in Ballingarry, County Tipperary, was over before it began.
978-0-7735-3377-6 April 2008
The grand prize winner is Annette Yourk for her piece "Mothering the Writer". Honourable mention goes to both Linda Langwith's "The Double Helix of Writing and Motherhood" and Kris Wright's untitled submission have each earned runner-up positions.
