Books

Making Sweatshops

By Tom Sandborn | March 10, 2003

Tom Sandborn reviews a book on one of the uglier phenomena associated with globalization

‘Tis the Season

By Stan Persky | December 8, 2002

Stan Persky goes to the Xmas show.

More Than a Diary, More Than a Lake

By Gordon Lockheed | November 6, 2002

Gordon Lockheed review Diary of a Lake, edited by John Harris and Vivien Lougheed

His Nose, etc.

By Brian Fawcett | October 29, 2002

Brian Fawcett starts off to review George Bowering’s His Life, but it turns into something more like an appreciation of a very gifted poet’s character

MAN OF DISAPPOINTMENT: MATT COHEN’S TYPING

By John Harris | October 4, 2002

John Harris makes a non-devotional analysis of Matt Cohen’s Typing

Clara Callan: The Book of the Hour

By Brian Panhuyzen | October 2, 2002

Brian Panhuyzen reviews last year’s GG & Giller winning novel

CHANGING THEIR SPOTS

By Stan Persky | July 24, 2002

Stan Persky reviews a new book on post-war American fiction

OUR EMMELINE

By John Harris | June 24, 2002

John Harris discusses art, artiness and the overabundance of cliches in the novels of Jane Urquhart, and adds a couple of critical innovations of his own to conventional literary analysis

SPINOZA’S LENS

By Stan Persky | June 12, 2002

Stan Persky examines a new book that suggests that the radical edge of Enlightment philosophy has shaped modernity more than we recognize

The Many Lives of Jesus

By T.F. Rigelhof | May 30, 2002

Terry Rigelhof gives an contextual overview of Nino Ricci’s likely-to-be-controversial novel Testament