An Unslick Reckoning
Brian Fawcett reviews B.C. poet Ken Belford’s latest book. He likes Belford, but isn’t so sure about the new work.
Read MoreCaitlin DeSilvey’s Proposition
As a “cultural geographer” wanders through abandoned industrial buildings in “Curated Decay,” Brian Fawcett wonders whether “autoethnography” is just another fancy academic term for preferring self-therapy to dealing with the mess in Detroit and the rest of a dying planet.
Read MoreLosing Sleep
Brian Fawcett tries to figure out why Nino Ricci’s new novel, Sleep, didn’t register with Canada’s Book Prize Juries.
Read MoreA True Blast from the Past
Brian Fawcett finally reads Cyril Connolly’s The Evening Colonnade after 40 years. He wishes he hadn’t waited so long.
Read MoreMedal Madness at the Pan Am Games: a participant’s report
Brian Fawcett files a report on the Pan Am games, currently blotting out perspective and meaning in Toronto
Read MoreWho is David Thauberger and Why is He Painting Pictures of Prince George?
Brian Fawcett wants everyone in Northern British Columbia to see the exhibition of David Thauberger’s paintings of Prince George. Here’s why.
Read MoreLocal Investment, Local Knowledge, and the Way Ideas are Imagined
Brian Fawcett goes home to Prince George to award the “John Harris Prize,” and makes a speech about what happened to the profits and prophets of the region.
Read MoreIs the Far-Right Right?
We know David Solway is right wing. But is he actually right about any of it? Brian Fawcett investigates….
Read MoreSome Moral Hysteria
Brian Fawcett on the media stampede surrounding Jian Gomeshi and Bill Cosby.
Read MoreJim Flaherty’s State Funeral
Brian Fawcett isn’t convinced there should have been a State Funeral for former Harper Government Finance Minister Jim Flaherty
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