September 23, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
Former soldier Sandra Perron made headlines two years ago with her shocking memoir, Out Standing in the Field, about experiencing sexual harassment, rape, and physical torture from male comrades in the armed forces. A new ... Read More »
Schizophrenia affects nearly one per cent of the population – about 24 million people worldwide – and, in spite of huge medical advances over the past century, remains one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized ... Read More »
July 22, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
It’s an awesome time to be reading trans literature. Having long toiled to carve out spaces for their stories, trans writers have deservedly garnered a newfound attention and a growing readership in Canada and beyond. ... Read More »
June 20, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews, Social Sciences
When it comes to critiquing multinational corporate culture, Walmart has provided plenty of low-hanging fruit. Book-length studies could be written about the brand’s radical restructuring of global supply chains, hollowing out of small-town main streets, ... Read More »
April 18, 2019 | Filed under: Reviews, Social Sciences
“To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist,” wrote Christopher Hitchens in his 2001 volume Letters to a Young Contrarian. “And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at ... Read More »
November 15, 2018 | Filed under: Social Sciences
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
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
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
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
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