Brian Fawcett refiles a review of Brian Brett’s new novel. This review is in English

Stan Persky reviews some love stories.

David Banerjee sheds some light on a little-publcized but very good book on Canada’s National Gallery by Douglas Ord

Brian Fawcett plumbs Primo Levi’s cosmology…

Is The New Yorker magazine dead and gone? Renata Adler thinks so. Stan Persky fact-checks her memoir.

Brian Fawcett reviews Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919

Stan Persky’s reflections on a plague.

Stan Persky reads up on Old Europe’s recent history.

John Harris looks at the novels of Vancouver writer Grant Buday