Stan Persky offers a tribute to the late Mordecai Richler by way of a review of Barney’s Version

Stan Persky reviews Larry McMurtry’s Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

Rita Moir’s Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels, is an impulse buy for John Harris

John Harris sets off on A Journey of Exploration begun by David Finch’s R.M. Patterson, A Life of Great Adventure (Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 2000).