Tangent

The Canadian government will soon offer financial incentives for those who snitch on underground business owners. But as Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book makes clear, under-the-table organizations and workers can be the lifeblood of their communities.

Immigration Canada is far from perfect. And when it comes to LGBT refugees escaping persecution in their home countries, it has a particularly long way to go. But, as Andy Lamey writes in his new book, there's hope.

Travelers often feel obliged to visit museums, regardless of their interest in the facts and figures on display. But Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships offers something for anyone who's been heartbroken: it exhibits monuments to lost love.

Nina Munk's The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty reports on the Millennium Villages Project—and, in some ways, it’s the story of how Western economists fail to understand camels.

The good news is that human beings can adapt to some of the worst environmental devastation. The bad news—As J.B. MacKinnon writes in his new book, The Once and Future World—is that once we've adapted, devastation becomes the new normal.

Some kids are said to see angels—for evidence, consult online forums, or Anthony de Sa’s protagonist in Kicking the Sky. It makes sense that children would be more attuned to the fantastical, less skeptical of the world around them. But is this true—or is it a fantasy held by grown-ups?

CSIS has a history of spying on Aboriginal activists. So why did it set up a recruitment booth at the Grand River Pow-Wow? Craig Davidson's Cataract City sheds some light.

The secret to eternal life is just around the corner—or so we've thought for millennia. But say we could live forever, the possibility of which Adam Leith Gollner explores in his new book: What would that mean for human relationships?

Reza Aslan's infamous interview with the conservative network actually proves a point he makes in his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth: some don't distinguish between fact and truth.