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By Chance Alone

For the better part of 30 years, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen has been on a mission to educate people through volunteer speaking engagements. Sharing his first-hand experiences of the year he was incarcerated in Nazi ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Measure of Darkness

By Liam Durcan

There comes a time when everyone must undertake an accounting of all they’ve accomplished, for good or ill, in their personal and professional lives. Usually this happens around middle age, when we can no longer ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

By Marta Zaraska

“To publicly make the observation that meat is murder,” writes avowed animal-rights advocate Morrissey in his autobiography, “is, in fact, to claim that the law is wrong. It is also to suggest that all British ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Health & Self-help

Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

By Ray Robertson

Biographies of musicians are often indistinguishable from extended fan letters, so it’s always nice when authors are upfront about their enthusiasms. In the introduction to his new essay collection, Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

You can’t bury them all

By Patrick Woodcock

Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock has spent much of his life as an expatriate in diverse countries that include Poland, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Colombia. In his new collection, the poet ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability

By Vincent Doyle

There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study of the organization, Vincent Doyle, a Canadian living in Spain, explains ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light

By Cordelia Strube

Smart and sassy girls are the focus of Cordelia Strube’s latest novel, a masterful blend of comedy and tragedy that delves into contemporary family life. At the heart of the book is 11-year-old Harriet, who ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The High Mountains of Portugal

By Yann Martel

Grief engenders both emotional and physical exile for the characters in Yann Martel’s fourth novel, told in three intersecting tales spanning nearly a century. A trio of men who have each suffered great losses set ... Read More »

January 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Angels’ Share

By Garfield Ellis

Everton Dorrill, a 37-year-old marketing executive in Jamaica, is about to make an important presentation when he learns his 67-year-old father, who has been out of his life for decades, has disappeared. From this elementary ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail

By Jenna Butler

Research is paramount to the development and operation of an off-grid, organic small farm. So says Jenna Butler who, along with her partner, Thomas, in 2006 established Larch Grove Farm near Barrhead in northern Alberta. ... Read More »

January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Science, Technology & Environment

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