Politics & Current Affairs

Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada

By Gabriel Allahdua; with Edward Dunsworth

From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »

April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ 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

Reasonable Cause to Suspect: A Mother’s Ordeal to Free Her Son from a Kurdish Prison

By Sally Lane

In the fall of 2014, Sally Lane’s son called to tell her he was in Syria. Eighteen years old at the time, Jack Letts was a recent convert to Islam and, according to Lane, idealistic ... Read More »

January 25, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

The Next Supper: The End of  Restaurants as We Knew Them,  and What Comes After

By Corey Mintz

It’s been challenging to read during this global pandemic; I’ve lost my attention span for anything beyond a long-form essay or some short stories, so when I was asked to review two books about “the ... Read More »

January 4, 2022 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

On Property

By Rinaldo Walcott

Rinaldo Walcott locates his contribution to the Field Notes series on current issues, On Property, in the present political moment, while using historical references and events to argue for the abolition of police and property. ... Read More »

May 10, 2021 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada

By Samir Shaheen-Hussain

Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s Fighting for a Hand to Hold explores how a policy in Quebec disallowing Indigenous parents to accompany their sick children on medevac flights resulted in significant, actively constructed barriers to care. These barriers ... Read More »

December 14, 2020 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey through a World Suspended

By Ethan Lou

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended everything we know. Isolation, fear, and confusion reign; for many, the world no longer makes any sense. Journalist Ethan Lou’s non-fiction debut serves as one possible map for this fog ... Read More »

December 10, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

★ Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community

By Justin Ling

Toronto’s Bruce McArthur was a regular feature in the city’s gay village. He regularly met other local men for purposes of intimacy. When circumstances permitted, he also strangled them to death. The circuitous manhunt that ... Read More »

October 8, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence

By Jonathan Manthorpe

By now, everybody knows that Francis Fukuyama got it wrong. When he declared, in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, that the fall of the U.S.S.R. and the Berlin Wall ... Read More »

September 28, 2020 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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