Jude Isabella

Traditionally, a review should not begin with what is wrong with a book. But in the case of Jay Ingram’s The Science of Pets, it seems necessary to address two big flaws up front: the cover and the title. I suppose the choices were made with marketing in mind. The cynic in me suspects that if you slap an image of a pooch on…

The first thought that crossed my mind when I picked up Dan Rubinstein’s Water Borne: A 1,200-Mile Paddleboarding Pilgrimage was to question whether pilgrimages can even be real anymore. In an age of living out loud and creating personal brands through the internet, this skepticism stayed with me as I followed the author’s four-part circuit: Ottawa to…