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Hopkinson (We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance, rev. 3/21) delivers another highly engaging nonfiction account...

Hearing the stories of near death experiences often paint visions of the “bright white light” and all the memories you’ve acquired flashing before you. It evokes thoughts of someone’s long journey to arrive at death, or perhaps their fast approach. Against Death is a collection of the different ways we interpret, experience, and brush shoulders with almost dying. While some of the stories are very matter-of-fact depictions of near death, others carry a more convoluted notion of the idea. Since this is an anthology, this juxtaposition feels necessary for a topic that typ...

Singapore has executed a second man in three weeks for cannabis trafficking, inviting the ire of human rights activists across the world. However, the city-state isn’t the only one with harsh laws on drug-related crimes. Countries like China, Malaysia and even Iran have zero tolerance for drugs

We started issuing recordings on the Stereophile label at the end of the 1980s, both to make available some of test tracks that we were using in our reviews and to enable readers to have access to recordings where the provenance was fully documented. That way the "Circle of Confusion" that Bob Katz discussed on the Stereophile website in 2017, where the sound quality of an audio component couldn't be judged using a recording with unknown sound quality potential, could be avoided.

Susan Cormier has won the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize.