Vancouver Writer Norbert Ruebsaat notices interesting parallels between modern art practices in the Old and the New World and learns more about what kitsch is.

Terry Glavin takes a long walk over hill and dale. The story he comes back with is a must-read.

Norbert Ruebsaat examines Alberto Manguel’s A Reading Diary while lying unclothed in the bathtub, and discovers some reading preferences of his own.

How to invade, occupy, reconstruct and democratize a Middle Eastern country of your choice. Or, for want of a Plan B, Plan A was lost.

Brian Fawcett finds a repeat of Kurosawa’s famous multi-view movie Rashomon within a 35 year old baseball prank, but decides that George Bowering’s new book, Baseball Love is otherwise well-written and worth reading.

Norbert Ruebsaat posts a short review of J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.

Norbert Ruebsaat posts the first of several short reviews, this one of a remarkably detailed memoir of post-war Germany and Austria by Hans-Georg Behr.

Vladimir: “I’m asking you if it came on you all of a sudden?”Pozzo: “I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune.”    –Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Given the hordes of religious fanatics who are currently burning flags, effigies, cars, other people’s houses of worship, and ultimately, each other, is it time for atheists to poke their heads out of their foxholes and announce that God doesn’t exist?

A Mario Vargas Llosa novel and a circle of rapt listeners in a jungle clearing remind Guthrie Gloag of the heart of storytelling.