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Caleb Powell reads a tangled Israeli tale.
Brian Fawcett reviews Nazneen Sheikh’s unique memoir, Moon Over Marrakesh
Gordon Lockheed conducts an electronic Interview with Terry Rigelhof about the work of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje, and their relative absence from Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984
International writing in the first decade of the 21st century. How “elsewhere” became merely relative, and the “exotic” referred only to “virtual reality.”
John Harris gives Ken Belford’s new book of poems the kind of close reading poets ought to be willing to kill to get, even when it doesn’t entirely come out the way they’d want.
Reading Canadian writing. The conversation continues.
Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.
1975 I’ve been at this project now for months, reading the shortlisted and winning books. In order to meet the demands of a prize that requires reading 100 or more books, considering the time allotted, jurors must be reading 5 or more books a week. I’m not convinced that is possible—or desirable. How do judges…