By Lucy White, December 18, 2020 Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism, Steve Davis, Wiley, October 6, 2020, 208 pp., $32.03 If you’re reading this review, at some point you have likely wanted to change the world or at least leave it a better place than you found it. So let’s cut to the chase: buy this book. Steve Davis has a bold and … [Read more...] about Undercurrents: Channeling our outrage
What Bears Teach Us: The push and pull of co-existence
By Gail Picco, December 8, 2020 What Bears Teach Us, Sarah Elmeligi, Photographs: John E. Marriott, Rocky Mountain Books, October 29, 2020, 224 pp., $45.00 Living in Toronto on the 15th floor in a corner suite with a reasonably unobstructed view—insofar as city views go—has its advantages. You can see a storm coming from miles away, feel the windy gales that shake … [Read more...] about What Bears Teach Us: The push and pull of co-existence
When More is Not Better by Roger Martin: ‘Has the familiarity of my grandma’s wisdom’
By Ginelle Skerritt, December 7, 2020 When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency, Roger Martin, Harvard Business Review, September 29, 2020, 256 pp., $30.66 The middle class is shrinking. Jobs are disappearing. The gap between the wealthy and the poor is widening. Fewer and fewer people control and possess a higher … [Read more...] about When More is Not Better by Roger Martin: ‘Has the familiarity of my grandma’s wisdom’
Takaya: What a lone wolf teaches us
By Gail Picco, December 2, 2020 Takaya: Lone Wolf, Cheryl Alexander, foreword Carl Safina, Rocky Mountain Books, September 29, 2020, 192 pp., $29.70 Takaya is the Coast Salish First Nations people’s word for wolf. “Takaya’s life was very odd for a wolf,” writes Carl Safina in his forward to Takaya: Lone Wolf. “Wolves are very social. They usually live in … [Read more...] about Takaya: What a lone wolf teaches us
Begin Again by Eddie Glaude: James Baldwin as a Man for our Time
By Gail Picco, November 30, 2020 Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and the Urgent Lessons for our Own, Eddie Glaude Jr, Crown, June 30, 2020, 272 pp., $33.78 When Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr looked to American history to help explain the American present, he found the moment called for nothing short of the biting, realistic and singular representation of … [Read more...] about Begin Again by Eddie Glaude: James Baldwin as a Man for our Time