May 27, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
Kirsteen MacLeod went to the woods because, like Thoreau, she wished to live deliberately. She also went to a hermit’s stone cottage in Scotland, a former convent in Quebec City, a famous shrine in Brazil, ... Read More »
In his fifth book of nonfiction, Marcello Di Cintio avoids cliché by casting a wide net to profile taxi drivers open to talking about who they are beyond their hours at the wheel. The result ... Read More »
May 20, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
Vultures feeding on human bodies as they float down the Magdalena River in Colombia is an image shudder-inducing enough to be memorable had it occurred just once in the new book by Wade Davis, but ... Read More »
December 17, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
Anna Tromedlov, the anti-hero of Natalie Zina Walschots’s stunning debut novel, Hench, isn’t drawn to villainy because of any deep-seated issues or evil intent. For Anna, temporary work as a henchperson to supervillains is just ... Read More »
September 21, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews, Social Sciences
Anna Tromedlov, the anti-hero of Natalie Zina Walschots’s stunning debut novel, Hench, isn’t drawn to villainy because of any deep-seated issues or evil intent. For Anna, temporary work as a henchperson to supervillains is just ... Read More »
September 21, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews, Social Sciences
In the spring of 2015, Sadia Messaili lost her son to suicide. Ferid had been a bright and empathetic 32-year-old with a loving family; he had also lived with mental health challenges for much of ... Read More »
August 10, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
What makes us afraid? People are generally aware of the well-studied “fight or flight” response that has helped ensure human survival in the face of imminent danger, but what about so-called irrational fears to things ... Read More »
February 27, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
Toronto chef and activist Joshna Maharaj has spent much of her career battling the injustice of the industrialized food system in hospitals and schools. From her start at the Stop Community Food Centre 14 years ... Read More »
February 24, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
It is not an exaggeration to say that Desmond Cole’s book should be taught in classrooms, roiling in the minds of the next generation, lauded in social justice movements. It’s a striking, searing, perspective-shifting book ... Read More »
January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews, Social Sciences
Two things become immediately clear upon reading Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism. The first is how readily women take for granted the rights and freedoms our older sisters, mothers, and grandmothers fought for. ... Read More »
January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences