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Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators
Look Here Look Away Look Again
History in the Age of Abundance?
The Experience of Meaning
Stanley’s Dream
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Review Roundup
Though summer is usually regarded as the vacation season in the Northern Hemisphere, our books have taken no time off. We are excited to share the following reviews from the latest issues of Montreal Review of Books and Literary Review of Canada.
High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada
Edited by Andrew Potter and Daniel Weinstock
Published for the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy
“It’s high time to think beyond basic legalization, and this book provides a strong foundation for future considerations … The various writers in High Time ask readers to think about the corporate influence possible in a legal environment, the potential of government conflicts of interest due to the huge money inherent in cannabis sales, and the the same idea to Parliament. As well, the book consistently refers to the particularities of Canada’s governance structures, in which the provinces demonstrate a range of responses to tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and other drugs, vis-à-vis a federal jurisdiction over criminal matters.” Montreal Review of Books
Mackenzie King in the Age of the Dictators
Canada’s Imperial and Foreign Policies
By Roy MacLaren
“This is a fair, clear-eyed account that does not set out to condemn King. Instead it dispassionately chronicles the common denominator in his reprehensible approach to immigration, his “muddle” over the invasion of Ethiopia, and his long infatuation with dictators: Canadian isolationism. On the whole, Mackenzie King in the Age of Dictators is refreshingly revisionist … Canadians should read this book—and buy copies for friends and family.” Literary Review of Canada
Look Here Look Away Look Again
By Edward Carson
“Edward Carson’s engrossing collection erodes the boundaries between words and images, between seeing, thinking, and feeling. As the title suggests, the poet offers a new way of contemplating art, one that is experiential and deeply satisfying … The poems are formally innovative with minimal punctuation, and the ample use of spaces between words allows the reader to absorb the intricate thoughts expressed on each line. Carson maintains this approach with remarkable consistency.” Montreal Review of Books
History in the Age of Abundance?
How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research
By Ian Milligan
“In addition to dealing with the counterintuitive scarcity of digital records, Milligan considers the problem of abundance. Never has recorded history been so vast and the sources—from governments, organizations, and individuals—so varied. These records can both illuminate and obscure. No one is sure how big the web is, but it is too big to be saved in its entirety or to be closely read, one document at a time. So Milligan offers historians something of a handbook, showing how they might change their techniques and, perhaps, ask new questions of the record.” Literary Review of Canada
The Experience of Meaning
By Jan Zwicky
“The Experience of Meaning paints a troubling portrait of our age. Unmitigated allegiance to rational, technocratic logic has annihilated our ability to perceive meaning. To revive this capacity would mean seeing our world anew. Not needing words to describe it or objective measures to assess it, we would be able to appreciate the integrity and wholeness of music, poems, biospheres, or even the liminal, outer- worldly process of ushering new life into this fragile and broken world.” Montreal Review of Books
Stanley’s Dream
The Medical Expedition to Easter Island
By Jacalyn Duffin
“In her ambitious non-fiction exploration of the 1964-65 Canadian-led expedition to Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, Jacalyn Duffin makes it clear there will be no detail left unexplored, no missing bibliographic data, and certainly nothing resembling a composite. The result is a capacious book in which an old story is ushered back into the light … Duffin achieves a fascinating bait and switch in the latter third of Stanley’s Dream. A hero emerges.” Literary Review of Canada
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