(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) In the year 1919, Sweden and Norway agreed on a reindeer grazing convention that proposed to limit the number of reindeer allowed to cross the border. This convention also insidiously determined the number of people to be displaced from their homes on the Atlantic seaboard. The Sámi people represented an Indigenous group … Continue reading The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of The Northern Sami– Elin Anna Labba

(Image Credit: Bloomsbury.com) Savage, filthy, honest, and unflinching, Eat The Apple is a no holds barred reminiscence of an egregious youth who joins the Marine Corps aged following a car crash on an inebriated night. After crashing his car into a fire hydrant, eighteen-year-old Matt Young impulsively enlists himself into the Marines. After being put … Continue reading Eat The Apple F*ck The Corps – Matt Young

(Image Credit: Kyle Books) Rooting for a holistic manner of leading life, NHS GP, and lifestyle medicine expert Dr. Ayan Panja, in The Health Fix, proposes a framework which he terms IDEAL, an acronym which when expanded reads, Identify, Define, Engage, Activate and Look Back. Taking a “systems” approach to good health (systems representing and … Continue reading The Health Fix: Transform Your Health in 8 Weeks – Dr. Ayan Panja

(Image Credit: http://www.edelweiss.plus) Drive is more a savage and deserving indictment of a giant enterprise in a gig economy that cares two hoots about imperiling lives and futures than a stark story of a young man who leads a life in between two successive paychecks, despite holding onto a stable day job, boasting two college … Continue reading Drive: Scraping by in Uber’s America, One Ride at a Time – Jonathan Rigsby

(Image Credit: New Generation Publishing) Emma Strandberg’s reminiscences of her 21-week peregrination of Iceland transcends the genre of travelogue. It is a spontaneous and agglomeration of raw emotions. It is also a tribute to resilience and a reinforcement of the power of belief. Strandberg sets off on an extemporaneous journey to Iceland with a view … Continue reading Where the F&*K is Blönduós – Emma Strandberg

(Image Credit: http://www.edelweiss.plus) The obsession of the global economy with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) received a rude jolt in a meeting organised by an expert with the objective of convincing a cross section of the British audience to vote to stay within the United Kingdom in the run up to Brexit. When the speaker informed … Continue reading The Poverty of Growth – Olivier De Schutter