Books

Reading, Writing, Shelving

By Stan Persky | March 17, 2007

Three books about the literary basics.

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What a Waste, Mistah Kurtz

By Brian Fawcett | March 3, 2007

Brian Fawcett reviews a bad book by a person he hasn’t heard
from in 35 years.

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The Gods That Failed

By Stan Persky | February 16, 2007

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)

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Forgotten Scenes

By Stan Persky | February 5, 2007

William Cooper, Scenes from Provincial Life (Penguin, 1950)

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Apples and Oranges

By Stan Persky | December 20, 2006

Are literary comparisons odious? Can we compare novels and non-fiction? Why not?

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Ramsay Cook’s Elegy

By Brian Fawcett | October 15, 2006

Brian Fawcett reviews Ramsay Cook’s remarkable memoir of his friendship with Pierre Trudeau.

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A Comedy of Errors

By Max Fawcett | October 11, 2006

Max Fawcett reviews Randy Boyagoda’s Giller Prize nominated book and discovers more than a few embarassing mistakes.

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Young Pierre Trudeau

By Brian Fawcett | September 26, 2006

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.

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Bad Ideas

By Stan Persky | August 3, 2006

Vancouver writer Heather Pringle rummages through the Nazi archives to tell the chilling story of some of the Third Reich’s lethal ideas.

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Edmund White’s Own Story

By Stan Persky | July 8, 2006

Cats have nine lives. Why can't we? A look at a (gay) "boy's own story."

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