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Book Review
Jun 4
Michael Nicholas
| Jules Boykoff, a prolific critic of the Olympic games, convincingly demonstrates that zeroing in on anti-Olympics organizing can help us understand how local movements interact with global issues. |
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Book Review
May 21
Malcolm Araos
| In his new book, James Wilt makes a convincing case for why public transit options better serve the most marginalized members of our society at a lower cost. |
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Book Review
May 14
Rachel Bondra
| A new book explores the problems with the planning profession, but also looks at the solutions available when planners and grassroots activists work together to combat the neoliberalization of cities. |
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Book Review
May 7
Raluca Bejan
| In his new collection of essays on the coronavirus pandemic, Slavoj Žižek is simply regurgitating many of his overused ideas in a shiny new COVID-19 packaging. |
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Book Review
Apr 16
Margeaux Feldman
| Shraya's second novel explores how, while social media amplifies our jealousy and longing, it is not the root cause of these feelings. |
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Book Review
Apr 2
Alexandra Valahu
| In her new book, "My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems," Amber Dawn names abuses of power in certain spaces and communities. |
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Book Review
Mar 12
Vincent Ternida
| "Polar Vortex" is a psychological drama that tests a vulnerable relationship where two lovers who seemingly know each other are challenged by secrets omitted to keep the relationship working. |
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Book Review
Feb 27
Daniel Aureliano Newman
| Laura Trethewey's lively book pitches human-scale stories as portals into world-sized issues, but the stories don't cohere. |
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Book Review
Jan 30
Sophia Reuss
| "A Planet to Win" argues that the activist left must popularize a new moral and political calculus, one aimed at building a world where all people can live a good life. |
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Book Review
Jan 16
Cristina D'Amico
| Platforms like Facebook and Twitter extract their users' labour for profit. The solution, says author Richard Seymour in his new book, is a social industry strike. |
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Book Review
Jan 9
Robert Hackett
| That's the task that Catriona Sandilands and the 45 other contributors to "Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times" have set for themselves. And it's no small challenge. |
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Book Review
Dec 6
Allison Smith
| Leslie Kern's latest book, "Feminist City: A Field Guide," is an introductory text on the female urban experience. |
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Book Review
Nov 28
Margeaux Feldman
| Carmen Maria Machado's new memoir, "In The Dream House," mirrors the way that trauma fragments our existence and depicts its afterlife in our bodies. |
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Book Review
Nov 21
Raluca Bejan
| New book promises bold new vision for leftist politics but fails to deliver. |
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Book Review
Nov 7
Bill Blaikie
| Segal has woven the history of the Canadian debate about a basic income policy into a book that is part personal memoir, part political memoir, and part political history. |
