The Umbrella Academy

Looking to expand your horizons this summer? We’ve asked our experts to review some of the biggest non-fiction books released this year so far. There are books to expand your knowledge of environmental collapse, others that will give you an insight into the work and lives of creatives like artist Leonora Carrington and actor Elliot Page, and books that offer advice on living better.

1. Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead

• Joanna Moorhead’s study of the pioneering surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) captures a wave of fascination for surrealist women artists.
• Reviewed by Susan Harrow

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2. Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today by Hal Hershfield

• Particularly, that it is important to avoid transplanting who and what we are now into the future, but instead to consider the context of the future.
• Hershfield explains that we often view our future selves as strangers and are consequently prone to making decisions against our own long-term interests.
• Your Future Self includes curated highlights at the end of each chapter to drive home the key lessons.

3. Pageboy by Elliot Page

• The book is poignantly raw, but Page also offers gentle levity through his encounters with love and sex.
• In places, Page links his difficulties to the broader transphobic narratives that are harming trans people across the world.
• Page is reflexive in acknowledging some of his privileges as a white celebrity with greater access to financial security.

4. The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan

• The Earth Transformed traces humanity’s relationship with the environment from the planet’s earliest life to the present day.
• The focus is on societies that build cities and support them with intensive agriculture, modifying their environments in the process.
• Frankopan synthesises a large, interesting body of research to tell a story of crucial importance for today’s world.

5. The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom

• It is an excellent book for anyone who wants a brief tour, as the title suggest, of these important basic concepts in psychology.
• The book offers readers examples of these psychological concepts set in the contemporary world.
• His stories are sometimes surprising and made me laugh out loud, which made this book enjoyable to read.

• Located in Toronto's Port Lands, the redevelopment of Marine Terminal 52 will create three production stages and support spaces totaling 130,000 square feet to welcome world-class productions in 2023.
• Cinespace is the largest studio facility in Toronto with 1.3 million square feet of production space totaling 25 stages over three sites.
• I am pleased that PortsToronto and Cinespace will be expanding their already successful infrastructure in the Port Lands by creating a second studio space for productions to use.
• Cinespace Studios is a best-in-class global platform of production facilities that supports content providers and their creatives.

• From the procurement of props and costumes to transportation and accommodations, The Umbrella Academy supported more than 980 Ontario-based businesses.
• From Southwest Ontario to Sault St. Marie, the production spending boosted local economies across the province, generating a total contribution of $111 million for Ontarios GDP.
• In total, Season Two stimulated 1,120 jobs in Ontario, including 620 direct jobs for local artists and technicians.
• The studio is responsible for commercially successful and critically acclaimed scripted programming, including "The Umbrella Academy," "Chucky," "Mr.

• This is cause for serious concern given the on-going youth e-cigarette epidemic and the fact that research shows on-screen exposure to tobacco imagery makes young people more likely to start vaping.
• Truth Initiative's latest report shows that 60% of young people's top 15 favorite 2020 streaming and broadcast season releases featured smoking, exposing an estimated 27 million youth to tobacco imagery.
• "Beyond tobacco depictions in PG movies, many of the top offenders included movies that appeal to youth, such as Oscar-winner "Promising Young Woman."
• The truth about tobacco and the tobacco industry are at the heart of our proven-effective and nationally recognized truth public education campaign.