“An instrument of empowerment”: Hugh Stephens offers a rationale for a robust Canadian copyright system
The Canadian situation is in stark contrast to other Western countries that have more robust copyright protections.
For art’s sake: Michael Finkel examines the life and crimes of the world’s most prolific art thief
Ultimately, Breitweiser's psychology remains something of a mystery.
“Why don’t you just put out those demos?”: Bruce Springsteen, creative tension, and the accidental creation of a musical masterpiece
Zanes is familiar with the technical aspects of production, and his descriptions of how Nebraska was captured on tape provide some of the most fascinating moments in his book.
Hell on Earth: John Vaillant’s Fire Weather is a sobering, terrifying, and infuriating look at how humans have created the conditions for our own extinction
In describing fire – its properties and its behaviour – Vaillant is at his most enthralling.
Carolyn Whitzman’s history of a notorious 19th century Toronto murder illustrates how much has not changed in the interim
A detailed and propulsive true crime story, Clara at the Door with a Revolver is also a work of social history.
Together, Donald Trump and Vince McMahon represent postmodern avatars for our relativistic, media saturated age
The pith and substance of both books involves an interrogation of what is genuine and what is kayfabe.
American author and poverty abolitionist Matthew Desmond turns the spotlight on readers in his latest volume
The alternatives to the limited cost of his proposals should be morally repugnant to the vast majority of thinking and feeling people.
In a meditative new book, author Jeff Sharlet examines the nexus points of division and discord in the U.S.
The tone Sharlet adopts for most of his book is plaintive, ironic, and not so much aghast at the existential state of his home country as sadly resigned.
“The manuscript has always been cursed”: Joel Warner traces the remarkable journey of one of the most notorious literary scrolls in history
Warner acts as part literary historian, part biographer, and part amateur detective.
In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy
Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.