History

★ In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times

In an age of doomscrolling clickbait, atrocity porn, and the three Ts – Trump, tariffs, terror – anyone could be forgiven for concluding the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. Responses to such ... Read More »

July 23, 2025 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, History, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences

★ Muybridge

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (trans.)

In his new graphic biography, Muybridge, Quebec cartoonist Guy Delisle delivers a portrait of an unusual man’s very unusual life. Though he never became a household name like his contemporary Thomas Edison (who also ... Read More »

April 30, 2025 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Graphica, History, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Poutine: A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery

By Justin Giovannetti Lamothe

Journalist Justin Giovannetti Lamothe crosses La Belle Province to discover the origins of Québec’s most beloved export, poutine, in this new book of culinary history. The origins of this humble dish are muddied; as Clement ... Read More »

October 23, 2024 | Filed under: Food & Drink, History, Reviews

When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

By Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; with Sean Carleton

The summer of 1990 was bookended by one of the most dramatic events in Canadian history. Thousands of paramilitary Quebec police and Canadian Armed Forces laid siege to the unceded territories of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, ... Read More »

September 25, 2024 | Filed under: History, Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography, Race & Ethnic Relations, Reviews

Unwinnable Peace: Untold Stories of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan

By Tim Martin

Three years after the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, Canada’s lengthiest military engagement seems a distant memory, one almost unrecalled by most citizens, even those who can still name Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele as part of this ... Read More »

August 14, 2024 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border

By Marina Sonkina

Marina Sonkina In Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border, Marina Sonkina renders the impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in startling, intimate details: the toothless woman who spent her savings on a pair of dentures, ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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

By Taras Grescoe

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

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