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Reviewing Red Diaper Baby

By Christina Leadlay

Published October 6, 2004

Red Diaper Baby

By James Laxer

Douglas & McIntyre

184 pp., $29.95

Reality can be stranger than fiction, and this is especially true of the tale Canadian author James Laxer tells in his recently published memoir, Red Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism. Laxer was the child of Communists. Both his parents were active members of Canada's Communist party, and his father was...

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