History

★ The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past

The climate crisis has forced us to re-examine the ways we feed ourselves and to question the best practices for what and how to eat – and especially, why to eat. Author Taras Grescoe (Bottomfeeder, ... Read More »

November 29, 2023 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Science, Technology & Environment

By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families

By R.H. Thomson

What insights emerge when we linger by the ghost light? Whose stories impress us with their significance, and whose spirits speak to us? These are questions that Canadian actor and playwright R.H. Thomson extends to ... Read More »

November 8, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?

By Chris Oliveros

In the first of a planned two-volume graphic history of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), Chris Oliveros, cartoonist and founder of renowned publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, brings to life the many personalities whose ... Read More »

November 8, 2023 | Filed under: Graphica, History, Reviews

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

By Claire Horn

Most people who have experienced pregnancy have likely at some point had a thought, however fleeting, that they wish someone – or something – else could take over for a while and grow their ... Read More »

October 25, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy

By Jason Bell

In Cracking the Nazi Code, University of New Brunswick professor Jason Bell describes how Canadian Winthrop Bell (no relation) tried to warn the world about the rise of far-right extremism in Germany after the First ... Read More »

October 18, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself

By Rob Goodman

Every Canadian knows the analogy about living next door to the United States: “like sleeping with an elephant,” we are “affected by every twitch and grunt.” The analogy may be well-worn, but the challenge of ... Read More »

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Canada Alone: Navigating the Post-American World

By Kim Richard Nossal

October 11, 2023 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast

By John Vaillant

Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »

May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

By Jeannie Marshall

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is currently touring event centres across Europe and North America (including a stop in Toronto this spring), promising a “life-size, up-close, never-before-seen perspective” of one of the world’s most celebrated ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History, Memoir & Biography

★ Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By Quinn Slobodian

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stripped Walt Disney World of its special zoning – a move critics said was blatant retaliation for Disney’s opposition to DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Business & Economics, History, Politics & Current Affairs

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