Book Reviews

History is full of powerful figures, but the lives and impacts of the ordinary people around them is often over looked. This is not the

I admit it – I don’t get it. There’s a wonderful tone to David McFadden’s What’s the Score?, and it’s philosophically evocative, and some of

Have you ever seen that infamous episode of South Park where they rip apart Scientology and arguably it’s most famous member, Tom Cruise? Well, if

Andrew Shaffer’s Literary Rogues – A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors is a deliciously naughty bit of trash lit for the beach bound cultural aficionado (or those

I hate self-help books. Something about the chapter titles and the snappy lists makes my teeth feel plaque-y. I swear there’s something inimitably vile about

Rock memoirs tend to fall into one of two categories: 1)  the self-aggrandizement of a misfit whose life is a tsunami of drugs, sex, and

Taking its title from the 1985 movie about a housewife who gets amnesia and is mistaken for a drifter, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s anthology charts the

Do you ever wonder what New York’s inner-city life was like in the 1980’s? This was a storied time when Hip Hop and graffiti art

A writer moves from an unfulfilling marriage into a violent relationship with a thuggish, though strangely charming ex-con. Crossings, Betty Lambert’s first and only novel,

 The logic of the camera and montage overtakes poetic volition in Jonathan Ball’s Politics of Knives. Indeed one of the many tropes of cutting in

Kale, the unsung hero of the vegetable world, finally gets its time in the spotlight. Sharon Hanna, author of The Book of Kale – The

Chinese immigration is deeply entwined with the development of the West. The labour of new Chinese immigrants, and the subsequent backlash which led to racially