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The July 20 issue of Maclean’s magazine features a cover article titled “Get Serious, America,” about the persistent, and apparently intractable, problems with race relations in the U.S. Written by Jonathon Gatehouse, the piece critiques ... Read More »

August 13, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life

By Colin Ellard

As anyone who grew up in a generic North American suburb knows all too well, it is possible to hate a place with a passion. So, too, is it possible to love a neighbourhood or ... Read More »

August 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

His Whole Life

By Elizabeth Hay

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” This is the question posed by 10-year-old Jim to his mother, Nancy, from the back seat of their old Chevette as they head north from New York City ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring

By Shawn Katz

According to the authors of two new books about Quebec’s Maple Spring – the headline-generating student mobilization of 2012 – mainstream media was generally unsympathetic, if not outright hostile, to the movement, leaving citizens poorly ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In Defiance

By Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Gold Eaters

By Ronald Wright

In the opening pages of his absorbing new novel, Ronald Wright introduces the reader to a highly advanced 16th-century society. This empire of expanding dominion boasts sophisticated, monarchial governance; large, functioning cities; and sufficient engineering ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Good as Gone: My Life with Irving Layton

By Anna Pottier

Even the healthiest romantic relationships are often fraught with difficulties, hurt feelings, and heartbreak; what initially are considered unbreakable bonds between individuals are severed by selfishness, emotional baggage, and conflicting personalities. Partnerships that commence with ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

By Brad Evans; Henry A. Giroux

Disposable Futures is a political and philosophical manifesto of sorts, but it is not always easy to follow. This is mainly because it is primarily constructed as an academic work, with roots in French critical ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mayors Gone Bad

By Philip Slayton

For someone who has spent a chunk of his book-writing career fixating on terrible lawyers (2008’s Lawyers Gone Bad), interventionist judges (2012’s Mighty Judgment, about the Supreme Court of Canada), and now terrible mayors, Philip ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Strength of Conviction

By Tom Mulcair

When federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced that his party would support the passage of the Conservatives' hugely controversial surveillance and information-sharing legislation, Bill C-51, he opened the door for the New Democratic Party – ... Read More »

August 1, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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