Books

The Take

By John Harris | July 23, 2008
John Harris reads George Stanley's book length poem, Vancouver: A Poem
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Why We Write Books

By Brian Fawcett | July 23, 2008
Brian Fawcett reviews Vivien Lougheed's Understanding Bolivia, A Traveller's History, and finds more than a very useful travel guide.
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Career Moves

By Stan Persky | July 3, 2008

A book about how a philosopher changed his mind.

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What Have We Learned? What Have We Forgotten?

By Stan Persky | June 7, 2008

A reappraisal of  "the years the locusts ate."

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…and Found

By Stan Persky | April 16, 2008

A search that not only turns up the long-lost dead, but also finds out how to tell a story

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Can You Read This? Don’t You Wish You Couldn’t?

By Stan Persky | April 7, 2008

A new book argues that America's state of mind is irrational, anti-intellectual and just plain ignorant.

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In Search of Lost Poets

By Stan Persky | March 20, 2008

On Roberto Bolano's picaresque pursuit of art.

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Serafin’s Stardust: Losing the best Canadian writer no one knows about

By Brian Fawcett | March 12, 2008

Brian Fawcett reviews a book by a writer who should have become more important to us than he has
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Dragland: A Retrospective Review

By John Harris | March 9, 2008

The latest installment of John Harris's Lives of the English Department.

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Post-Communist Story

By Stan Persky | February 29, 2008

On Bruce Benderson's memoir of an Eastern European passion

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