by Gail Picco, August 25, 2021 You Have a Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change, Barbara Floersch, Civil Sector Press, January 26, 2021, 115 pp., $28.95 In You Have a Hammer, Barbara Floersch, who assumes the grantwriter knows how to fill in an application, is more interested in how charities and grantwriters are positioning themselves in relation to … [Read more...] about You Have a Hammer: A state of fundraising being
The Conversation: ‘Masterfully written and expertly researched’
By Wanda Deschamps August 13, 2021 The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations, Robert Livingston, PenguinRandomHouse, February 2, 2021, 368 pp., $33.74 In the wake of the most significant anti-racism protests since the 1960s arrives Dr. Robert W. Livingston’s The Conversation. … [Read more...] about The Conversation: ‘Masterfully written and expertly researched’
Likeness by David Macfarlane: A father’s thoughts of a future without his son
By Gail Picco (July 26, 2021) Likeness: Fathers, sons, a portrait, David Macfarlane, Doubleday Canada, May 18, 2021, 240 pp., $29.95 In Likeness, an achingly sad and sometimes hilarious memoir, David Macfarlane uses a portrait of himself created by preeminent Canadian painter John Hartman as a vehicle to access his memory. The painting is part of a project by … [Read more...] about Likeness by David Macfarlane: A father’s thoughts of a future without his son
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason made me feel better about climate, ‘if such a thing is possible’
By Kathleen Adamson (July 20, 2021) On Time and Water, Andri Snær Magnason, Biblioasis, March 30, 2021, 240 pp., $24.70 According to Andri Snær Magnason, we need stories. In his excellent book On Time and Water, the award-winning Icelandic fiction author turns his hand to a nonfiction climate change narrative, braiding family memories with scientific reporting and … [Read more...] about On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason made me feel better about climate, ‘if such a thing is possible’
Marcus Aurelius: No abstracted ponderer
By Kathleen Adamson (July 8, 2021) Meditations: The Annotated Edition, by Marcus Aurelius, Edited by Robin Waterfield, Basic Books, April 16, 2021, 384 pp., $32.37 The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome from 161-180CE, make up one of the most popular and enduring works of philosophy of all time, although they were never intended for public … [Read more...] about Marcus Aurelius: No abstracted ponderer