House of Anansi

R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist ? a geneticist who teaches at Harvard ? yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that...

In The Disciple of Las Vegas, forensic accountant Ava Lee is hired by the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million from a Canadian land swindle. With the billionaire's reputation on the...

What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style...

In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To...

Governor General's Award Winner Tenth Anniverary Edition, with a new preface Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and...