Books

What Species of Writer

By Brian Fawcett | March 22, 2009

Brian Fawcett reads a strange and readable book.

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Exit Strategies

By Stan Persky | March 3, 2009

Stan Persky considers literary endgames.

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A Poet and A City

By Stan Persky | February 2, 2009

Stan Persky reads George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem, and thinks about “The darkness of the mind & the darkness of death, / & in between the bright day, bright city.”

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Reading the Entrails: A forensic review of Conrad Black’s FDR

By John Harris | February 2, 2009

John Harris examines Conrad Black’s treatment of F.D.R. and finds some surprises.

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Boobies

By Stan Persky | January 26, 2009

Stan Persky reads Canada’s 2008 novel of the year, and meets some odd birds.

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Haunted by a Spectre

By Stan Persky | January 22, 2009

Stan Persky reads Paul Krugman’s new book about the collapse of capitalism, and sees a ghost.

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Books of the Year, 2008

By Stan Persky | December 19, 2008

We’re making a list and checking it twice; so is everyone else.

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How Dumb Can You Get?

By Stan Persky | August 12, 2008

The decline of reading, knowledge and democracy among the young.

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Art that takes your breath away

By Stan Persky | August 5, 2008

Shot-countershot. The story of a director who disappeared into his films.

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Of Memory and Monuments

By Stan Persky | July 31, 2008

A trip to hell, carrying plenty of historical baggage

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