Politics & Current Affairs

A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada

The title of John Ralston Saul’s newest book, A Fair Country, sounds like a rejected Liberal Party campaign slogan, but its contents are much more combative, provocative, and stimulating than anything likely to be uttered ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

By Richard Matthews

It’s a sad comment on the human condition that moral issues thought to have been settled by the grim experience of history are frequently dredged up and reopened for debate. Take, for example, the recent ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By Margaret Atwood

The evidence is in: Margaret Atwood simply sees more clearly than the rest of us. In her five-part 2008 Massey Lectures, the author applies her familiar cultural X-ray vision to dark material. Debt is usually ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar

By Monia Mazigh; Patricia Claxton and Fred A. Reed, trans.

On Sept. 26, 2002, Monia Mazigh’s life changed forever. Her husband, Maher Arar, had cut short his vacation with his family in Tunis to return to Ottawa for work, flying home via Zürich and New ... Read More »

November 10, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP

By Paul Palango

Paul Palango has a lot of material to work with in his new book about the ineptitude, incompetence, and, in some cases, outright corruption of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Having drifted far from the ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

I Live Here

By Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons

The persistence of global poverty inspires a kind of latter-day colonialism by which good-hearted people from wealthy enclaves receive kudos for travel to places most of us would rather not hear about. While celebrities such ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Jerome: The Historical Spectacle

By Ami McKay

Following the success of her first novel, The Birth House, Ami McKay’s debut play delves into the mysterious and fantastical world of the carnival to tell the tale of Jerome, a legless man who was ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Mission of Folly: Why Canada Should Bring Its Troops Home from Afghanistan

By James Laxer

The Western occupation of Afghanistan, now longer than the Second World War, was slow to find traction in the Canadian publishing world. However, the past 18 months have seen a growing trickle of soldiers’ exploits, ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos – Bikers United Against the Hells Angels

By Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq

The second book by American author, entrepreneur, musician, and former Bandidos biker Edward Winterhalder, The Assimilation chronicles Quebec’s bloody biker wars of the 1990s. However, the book is less about the carnage – of which ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

India Express: The Future of a New Superpower

By Daniel Lak

Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat has already outlined how outsourcing has transformed India, but the extent of it is still surprising. As a BBC foreign correspondent covering India and its environs for nearly 20 ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

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