Making sense of the world and ourselves in challenging times
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a book for these troubled times. It’s as beautiful as it is insightful…
The Black Death and its aftermath
Surprisingly, post-Black Death populations tended to live longer and enjoy better health and standards of living…
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…