Books

Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Post-Modernist Cantos (I-VI)

By John Harris | February 16, 2008

An essay about poetry, Louis Dudek, Ezra Pound, their critics, and more.

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Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Post-Modernist Cantos (VII-XII)

By John Harris | February 16, 2008

An essay about poetry, modernism, fascism, Louis Dudek, Ezra Pound, and more.

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Dark Places

By Stan Persky | December 17, 2007

It's the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad in December 1857. All hands on deck!

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Yes, We Have No Canon Today

By Stan Persky | December 15, 2007

George Bowering's Burning Water is back in print. Why it matters.

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David Gilmour, Parent, Movie Critic

By Brian Fawcett | November 1, 2007

Brian Fawcett files a review of David Gilmour's new book about raising
teenagers and watching movies. He likes the book, but isn't so hot
about the way it was presented.
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No Logos, No Fear: A Review of Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”

By Max Fawcett | October 23, 2007


Max Fawcett dissects Naomi Klein's latest best-seller.

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A Road Runs Through It

By Stan Persky | October 19, 2007

Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel, a half-century later.

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An Irishman’s History of Everything

By Brian Fawcett | October 5, 2007

Brian Fawcett corrects an oversight by posting a 2005 review of Don Akenson's remarkable two volume An Irish History of Civilization,
which he thinks might be the best book written in Canada in the last decade. Or two.
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Forever

By Stan Persky | September 21, 2007

Notes for survivalists.

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Some Enchanted Evening… in Aleppo?

By Stan Persky | June 1, 2007

An American anthropologist in a Syrian steambath.

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