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Sheldon Goldfarb’s history of student life at UBC takes us back to school.
Brian Fawcett reads the jacket copy of a science fiction novel
Old Age and Writing are disturbed by thought. Three George Stanley poems.
Brian Fawcett files his third obituary in the last little while. He’s more or less up to date with his personal version of the Grim Reaper’s activities. Or so he hopes.
Late in the summer of 2017, Wally Hourback, a Canadian writer from North Bay, Ontario, and a man with whom I had a fifteen-year relationship that was entirely epistolary and editorial, died of heart failure. My relationship with Wally came about because of dooneyscafe.com, for which Hourback wrote occasional pieces, and which you know, if…
Claus Spiekermann and I tried to smuggle a car from Germany to Greece in the winter of 1963. It didn’t go well, and we spent two weeks trapped by what people were calling the worst blizzard in 200 years. We got as far as Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia. The blizzard eventually…
George Bowering has a new novel. It’s called “No One.” Does it objectify anyone?
Remembering Philip Roth and his indelible novel, “The Human Stain.”
I’m mad as hell and…
Trump is deciding whether to pull out of the Iran deal. French president Emmanuel Macron had some friendly advice.