Barry Craig

Nov 23, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Barry Craig

Handel’s Messiah could be its own religion if it didn’t already have one. The world-famous choral masterpiece has a doting audience in the millions every Christmas either singing it, listening to it in-person or hearing it on records, radio, streaming services or TV. It is without a doubt Christianity’s most glorious calling card. This oratorio is not just music. To many it’s a close friend, a lyrical guide to a higher power or simply a kickstart to happiness.

Jun 22, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Barry Craig

This is the extraordinary chronicle of the potency of love when it is really most inconvenient. The War We Won Apart is a fervent masquerade of men and women with false identities dropping from the skies over France in the Second World War to conduct an orchestra of killing.

Jun 1, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Barry Craig

If public conscience be a choir, most of its singers are mute when it comes to saving wildlife. A new book on the extinction of living things (other than us) suggests wildlife will continue to lose out to human ambition and convenience until a lot more people speak out against it. In Signs of Life, celebrated environmental journalist Sarah Cox reveals that at the rate we’re killing wildlife and their habitats, we’ll be lucky in a few lifetimes to have much of anything left to destroy.

May 18, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Barry Craig

In Martin Wikelski’s captivating book The Internet of Animals, he describes two incidents with animals that sound as far-fetched as blaming a pregnancy on a mattress. The two incidents involve marine iguanas in the Galapagos Islands and an Arctic fox in Alaska.

Apr 20, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Barry Craig

While this book may generate more flak than an air raid, The Wisdom of Nurses is well-done food for thought. Co-authors Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung are registered nurses and co-hosts of The Gritty Nurse podcast, in which they talk to nurses all over the world. They admire the legendary Florence Nightingale as everybody’s image of the immortal nurse.