Books

The Pathological Belief in Rhetorical Questions

By Brian Fawcett | May 31, 2004

Brian Fawcett reads Joel Bakan’s The Corporation, and finds it diminished by its rhetorical overkill.

Long Tall Sally

By Bruce Serafin | May 12, 2004

Bruce Serafin reads Don DeLillo’s masterpiece and wonders what a Canadian book of similar scope would sound like. (He has some ideas.)

Generation Y on Generation X – Looking Backwards through Younger Eyes

By David Banerjee | May 2, 2004

David Banerjee has a look at what GenX says to GenY..

Between Porn and a Soft Place

By Stan Persky | April 25, 2004

Stan Persky goes to the movies and reads the book, but still wonders if an "adult" video might not be better.

Monkey Think, Monkey Do?

By Stan Persky | April 23, 2004

Do Animals Think? asks psychologist Clive Wynne. Stan Persky checks out the answer.

Smoking Guns

By Stan Persky | April 12, 2004

Stan Persky reads Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies

Jose Saramago’s Cave

By Brian Fawcett | April 5, 2004

Brian Fawcett is finally moved by the work of a Nobel Prize winner…

The Sinful Visions of Father Sebastian

By Stan Persky | January 10, 2004

Stan Persky reports on a Chilean novel.

The Egregious Historian

By Brian Fawcett | December 18, 2003

Brian Fawcett rereads an interesting but troubled book published in 1996, and has second thoughts

M@B: The Voice of Today’s Urban Bachelor

By David Banerjee | December 18, 2003

David Banerjee offers a review of Matthew Blackett’s collection of comic strips