Ken Wiwa's In the Shadow of a Saint A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy Random House 2000 - Vintage, 2001. As much as this book is about its author Ken Wiwa, as much as it is about his father Ken Saro-Wiwa, as much as it is about fathers
Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964 The Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Ed. Martha Freeman) Beacon Press, 1995 Did you catch my letter to autumn on its equinox last week? I was saying how I love letters. That I'll be Buried In Epistolary Print on
"We had to write three pages on our favourite season and I chose fall because of all the shimmery comic-book colours: a dazzling red dash here, a splash of yellow there, a sparkle of orange peeping out like Mayaro fireflies. In Mayaro, mostly everything was green. Here the
Toronto: An Illustrated History of Its First 12,000 Years Ed. Ronald F. Williamson James Lorimer & Company (2008) Yes, that's right: 12,000 years. So the city that you recognize from tramping the pavement these days doesn't even get going until 2/3 of the way into the book. Which makes this
Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry Suzette Mayr's Monoceros Coach House Books, 2011 Nowadays, it's been Disney-fied, but once-upon-a-time the unicorn wasn't about pink glitter and rainbows, but about raw passions, about what cannot be tamed. In one of Da Vinci's notebooks is this note: "The unicorn, through its
