Books
Three books about the literary basics.
Brian Fawcett reviews a bad book by a person he hasn’t heard
from in 35 years.
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
William Cooper, Scenes from Provincial Life (Penguin, 1950)
Are literary comparisons odious? Can we compare novels and non-fiction? Why not?
Brian Fawcett reviews Ramsay Cook’s remarkable memoir of his friendship with Pierre Trudeau.
Max Fawcett reviews Randy Boyagoda’s Giller Prize nominated book and discovers more than a few embarassing mistakes.
Brian Fawcett files the full version of a review of Max and Monique Nemni’s biography of the youthful Pierre Trudeau. The short version appeared in Books in Canada a few months ago.
Vancouver writer Heather Pringle rummages through the Nazi archives to tell the chilling story of some of the Third Reich’s lethal ideas.
Cats have nine lives. Why can't we? A look at a (gay) "boy's own story."