In praise of trashy paperbacks
What could be bad about stories that are pacey, and replete with nefarious dealings, treachery, passion and lust? They're great fun and you won't nod off reading them…
Thomas King exposed inconvenient Indigenous truths
The author is funny but not fooling around in The Inconvenient Indian, an examination of the movement to eliminate the Indigenous…
The making of an unlikely U.S. president
The new book Becoming Ronald Reagan details the unlikely emergence of the most consequential Republican conservative of the 20th century…
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” The wisdom of Star Wars
Trying implies eventually giving up but doing implies putting in the effort until the goal is achieved…
Words matter, outcomes matter more
In modern society, we tend to casually toss around words like racism and genocide. We need to be more respectful of these words – and their horrible history…