After the 2016 US election, Canadians of many stripes wondered "could it happen here?" Michael Adams' book of the same name is an unsatisfactory attempt to answer this question.…
Facism: A Very Short Introduction is indeed very short, but it's brevity didn't do me any favours. A lot of my questions about politics remain unanswered.…
Reading and reviewing books is an unpredictable, mood-based thing for me. But here are some books that I hope to review in 2017.…
The new sci-fi movie Arrival is heart-breaking, and in the shadow of Trump, I wonder if I can live up to its message of hope.…
I haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale in a long time. But it’s not a novel anymore. It’s a book of prophecies. Sometimes life just sucks the joy out of art and stories and reading. I have a feeling that joy will be gone for a while. I’m having a hard time seeing the point right now.…
Canada's next federal election is less than a month away, which makes it a perfect time to read "The Longer I'm Prime Minister" by Paul Wells. Politics, yay!…
A look at N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, a fantasy book that speaks deeply about oppression, inequality, and how society benefits from perpetuating both.…