Hard to Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up

Breaking up might be hard to do, but it certainly isn’t hard to read about in Kelli María Korducki’s debut non-fiction title, the latest in Coach House Books’ Exploded Views series. Hard to Do turns ... Read More »

May 31, 2018 | Filed under: History, Social Sciences

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture

By Benjamin Woo

Can someone geek out over geekery itself? Benjamin Woo, an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University, provides a strong case for it in Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences

Mad Blood Stirring: The Inner Lives of Violent Men

By Daemon Fairless

In 1990, Bill Buford, a Louisiana-born American living in the U.K., published Among the Thugs, arguably the best book ever written about the English football hooliganism that spread like wildfire in the mid-1980s. Though rabid ... Read More »

March 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences

★ A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

By Marilyn R. Schuster (ed.)

One of the most dismal consequences of the Internet’s cultural ubiquity has been the demise of the personal letter. Not surprisingly, the loss is felt especially where writers are concerned. Though there has always been ... Read More »

May 17, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future

By Hal Niedzviecki

Given the recent news there may be water on Mars, combined with Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Andrew Weir’s novel The Martian, about an astronaut stranded on the red planet, the title of Hal Niedzviecki’s new ... Read More »

January 4, 2016 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection

By Michael Harris

Back in 2011, a YouTube video called "A Magazine is an iPad That Doesn't Work" made the rounds online. The clip begins with a shot of a one-year-old child happily scrolling through images on an ... Read More »

August 5, 2014 | Filed under: Social Sciences

Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives

By Joseph Heath

The new book by University of Toronto philosophy professor Joseph Heath is an important and even entertaining work that ought to be read widely. But, for the exact reasons Heath outlines, it is unlikely to ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Social Sciences

Fifty Shades of Feminism

By Lisa Appignanesi; Rachel Holmes; Susie Orbach (eds.)

Edited by Canadian writer Lisa Appignanesi and British writers Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, Fifty Shades of Feminism uses its titular allusion to unapologetically tap into a willing market of female readers with the intention ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Social Sciences

A Family by Any Other Name: Exploring Queer Relationships

By Bruce Gillespie (ed.)

The rigid expectation of what a “family” should look like is something many of us find stifling as we move toward creating our own. Nowhere is this struggle more keenly felt than in the queer ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Social Sciences

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