Mad Matters

The task of reviewing this book feels like a great privilege, but also an impossible mission. Reading through its many chapters is like embarking on exciting journeys in multiple directions, and one wonders whether such a rich, long and inspiring trip can be appraised at all. Each chapter opens up a different topic and invites further thinking and exploration.

Though modestly confining itself to Canadian Mad Studies, this is, as far as I am aware, the first publication worldwide to introduce the field of Mad Studies. Since Canada is the only country on earth offering a university course in Mad people’s history, the origins of Mad Matters may come as no surprise. However, this ‘critical reader’…