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Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of a Renaissance book-hunter’s trip to the library. Stan Persky looks at Greenblatt’s “The Swerve” and the pushback from its critics.
Read MoreOf guns and gunmen. In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the lamentations may be loud, but the silence of the killer is deafening.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett offers a review of George Bowering’s Pinboy
Read MoreJohn Harris goes to the Writers Union AGM to learn about self-publishing. Here’s his report on what he learned
Read MoreBrian Fawcett can see a few things wrong with Sue Swan’s attempt to create another writing prize…
Read MoreWally Hourback uploads the first of a new series of probes into our cultural conditions–as viewed from North Bay, Ontario
Read MoreStan Persky reads a long biography of Richard Brautigan.
Read MoreThe celebrity obit page in the Globe and Mail for June 4, 2012 has two entries. At the bottom, a four inch obit for Paul Fussell, who died May 23 at age 88. Fussell was a man who wrote two and maybe three great books during his life. One, The Great War and Modern Memory,…
Read MoreWally Hourback takes time out from fixing his truck to file a column from North Bay about “Postcolonialism” in Prince George, B.C.
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