Books

That Sinking Feeling

By Stan Persky | July 5, 2010

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the rough seas of capitalism.

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Other Voices, Other Realms

By Stan Persky | June 13, 2010

International writing in the first decade of the 21st century. How “elsewhere” became merely relative, and the “exotic” referred only to “virtual reality.”

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The New Ken Belford: Reaching Out without Selling Out

By John Harris | June 10, 2010

John Harris gives Ken Belford’s new book of poems the kind of close reading poets ought to be willing to kill to get, even when it doesn’t entirely come out the way they’d want.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eh?

By Stan Persky | May 27, 2010

Reading Canadian writing. The conversation continues.

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Adrift on the Ark

By Vivien Lougheed | May 2, 2010

Vivien Lougheed reads Margaret Thompson’s animal stories, and thinks about the distance from here to Eden.

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A New, Better Way to Read Canada’s Novels

By Gordon Lockheed | March 27, 2010

Rigelhof on the good, the better, and the best.

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Acknowledging a City’s Dark History

By Paul Strickland | March 2, 2010

Prince George poet Barry McKinnon enters the millennium.

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How the Nazis took Germany

By Brian Fawcett | February 21, 2010

Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War

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Parsing Reality Hunger

By Caleb Powell | January 28, 2010

Caleb Powell reviews an about-to-be published and likely-to-be controversial book by American cultural analyst David Shields

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