Books
Longer than a tweet, faster than a Fox News lie, here are some of the books of the year — read, re-read, and not-so-red in the Age of Trumpty-Dumpty.
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It’s a flash-mob Greek tragedy. Stan Persky reviews “Adults in the Room,” the political memoir that tells you almost everything you need to know about the EU.
Read MoreMartha Gellhorn’s journalistic beat covered the globe. Today, there’s more reason than ever to read her dispatches from the front.
Read MoreJohn Harris reviews Andrew Struthers’ new book from New Star Press.
Read MoreWhy you need to read this book — now.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett reviews B.C. poet Ken Belford’s latest book. He likes Belford, but isn’t so sure about the new work.
Read MoreLarry Fagin (1937-2017) thought that a lot of life was “off-the-cuff” and that “prose poems” were one way of conveying that insight.
Read MoreReading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.
Read MoreAs a “cultural geographer” wanders through abandoned industrial buildings in “Curated Decay,” Brian Fawcett wonders whether “autoethnography” is just another fancy academic term for preferring self-therapy to dealing with the mess in Detroit and the rest of a dying planet.
Read MoreHow Albert Camus’s literary classic came into being, despite an absurd world and an absent divinity.
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