SOCIAL SCIENCE
Any Night of the Week
The story of how Toronto became a music mecca.
From Yonge Street to Yorkville to Queen West to College, the neighbourhoods that housed Toronto’s music scenes. Featuring Syrinx, Rough Trade, Martha and ...
Disfigured
A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020
AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21
A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify ...
House Divided
A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live.
Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning ...
The Seed
Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn't support women struggling to have children. In pop culture as much as in policy advocacy, the feminist movement has historically left ...
All Day I Dream About Sirens
From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism.
What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell ...
A Matter of Taste
How farmer's markets and organic produce became synonymous with "good food" and why they shouldn't be.
How did farmer's markets, nose-to-tail, locavorism, organic eating, CSAs, whole foods, and Whole ...
No Place To Go
This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we're allowed to "go" in public.
Adults don't talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public ...
The Ward Uncovered
In early 2015, a team of archaeologists began digging test trenches on a non-descript parking lot next to Toronto City Hall -- a site designated to become a major new court house. What they discovered ...
Hard To Do
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.
Whatever the underlying motives – be they love, financial security, or mere masochism – the ...
Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract
A cultural planner's immodest proposal: change how we think about children and we just might change the world.
We live in an ‘adultitarian’ state, where the rules are based on very adult priori- ties ...