by Roger Ali, June 11, 2021 Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming, Antonio Michael Downing, PenguinRandomHouse Canada, January 29, 2021, 334 pp., $23.21 Saga Boy is a memoir of love, loss, and pain, of self-actualization and acceptance. It is a beautiful, raw story about Antonio Michael Downing’s life-long search for his black identity as he approaches each stage … [Read more...] about Saga Boy: Beautiful, raw, and searching
Literary Circle
Hannah Arendt: Deeply influential 20th century thinker embodies contradiction, passion and a proximity to history
By Kathleen Adamson (May 23, 2021) On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt, written by Ann Heberlein, translated by Alice Menzies, House of Anansi, January 5, 2021, 272 pp., $24.70 Anne Heberlein’s new biography of Hannah Arendt sparkles with energy and clarity. Hannah Arendt’s brilliance as a writer and political thinker has long been … [Read more...] about Hannah Arendt: Deeply influential 20th century thinker embodies contradiction, passion and a proximity to history
The Case for Basic Income: An anti-poverty strategy
By Ginelle Skerritt (May 21, 2021) The Case for Basic Income: Freedom, Security, Justice, Jamie Swift and Elaine Power, Between the Lines, May 3, 2021, 208 pp., $24.95 You may recognize author Jamie Swift from his work as a documentary producer for Ideas on CBC radio. He is also a writer and has been a business professor. His latest book, The Case for Basic Income: … [Read more...] about The Case for Basic Income: An anti-poverty strategy
Benjamin Miller: Very rarely does an author take political theory and interpret it with such relevance and clarity
By Kathleen Adamson (May 13, 2021) The 100-Year PR Plan, Benjamin Miller, Gail K. Picco Books, Civil Sector Press, January 15, 2021, 238 pp., $39.99 Like the legal system, the language of academic discourse has become so complex that it sometimes requires an interpreter -- someone like Benjamin Miller. But that does not mean nothing important is there. Revisiting … [Read more...] about Benjamin Miller: Very rarely does an author take political theory and interpret it with such relevance and clarity
A Girl Called Echo: A Resounding Messenger of Métis History
By Gail Picco (May 10, 2021) Road Allowance Era: Vol. 4, A Girl Called Echo, Katherena Vermette, Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson, Colour by Donovan Yaciuk, HighWater Press, Graphic Novel, Grades 5–9, April 27, 2021, 48 pp., $19.95 Road Allowance Era, a powerful conclusion to The Girl called Echo series of four graphic novels written for Highwater Press by Canadian … [Read more...] about A Girl Called Echo: A Resounding Messenger of Métis History