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Book Review
Oct 4
Yutaka Dirks
| Lars Osberg's "The Age of Increasing Inequality" is a valuable read for those hoping to make sense of inequality, as well as the arguments advanced by economists about the problem. |
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Book Review
Sep 13
Niranjana Iyer
| "Educated" chronicles Westover's journey from harsh survivalist childhood to Cambridge PhD. |
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Book Review
Sep 5
Rohan Ghatage
| In her new book, Annie Lowrey crafts a convincing, left-leaning account for why UBI needs to be seriously considered as a means of lifting the world's most destitute well above the poverty line. |
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Book Review
Jul 27
Aalya Ahmad, Radical Handmaids
| On April 25, 2012, a small grassroots group of (mostly) young women donned outfits inspired by Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, and went to Parliament Hill for a little "cosplay." |
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Book Review
May 18
Jooneed Khan
| With his just-released book, Washington's Long War on Syria, Stephen Gowans blows away the twisted layers of disinformation and war propaganda around Syria, and exposes a great 21st-century tragedy. |
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Book Review
Dec 6
Christina Turner
| "Notes from a Feminist Killjoy" is an answer to what is needed now -- a self-consciously contingent rejoinder to the question of "who needs feminism?" |
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Book Review
Oct 27
Yutaka Dirks
| In "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" sociologist Matthew Desmond offers a critical examination of urban poverty and homelessness told through the stories of eight families. |
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Book Review
Sep 15
Christine Smith (McFarlane)
| New collection "In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation" describes what reconciliation can mean to the individual. But are words enough? Our reviewer says it's time for action. |
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Book Review
Sep 8
Ellen Tolmie
| 'Forbidden Fruit' is Gail Pellett's raw and highly personal memoir of the year, mid-1980 to mid-1981, when she lived in Beijing as China was just emerging from its decade-long Cultural Revolution. |
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Book Review
Aug 25
Gary Bauslaugh
| All the Liberals had to do was construct legislation that complied with the Supreme Court ruling. But instead they bungled the file on assisted dying. Here's what happened. |
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Book Review
Aug 18
Allan Cho
| Lauralyn Chow's new short story collection 'Paper Teeth' follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends in Edmonton. Read this author Q&A now! |
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Book Review
Aug 11
Clarissa Fortin
| The clitoris. Something so powerful and wonderful, yet largely misunderstood and ignored. Dive into female pleasure and sexuality with "Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality." |
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Book Review
Aug 4
Jacqueline Kennelly
| So, the Rio Olympics start on Friday. Instead of the typical media tributes to Olympic success, let's look at the political resistance to the Olympic behemoth, past and present. |
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Book Review
Jul 28
Kaitlin McNabb
| When did feminism start meaning that consumption was the most revolutionary act? Marketplace feminism has been creeping in for quite a while and it's time to put it in its place. |
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Book Review
Jul 21
Kahente Horn-Miller
| 'Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place' examines how patriarchy, gender and colonialism have shaped the experiences and knowledge of Indigenous women. Read an excerpt here. |
