Reviews
International writing in the first decade of the 21st century. How “elsewhere” became merely relative, and the “exotic” referred only to “virtual reality.”
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.
Reading Canadian writing. The conversation continues.
From brand name bullies to the Chicago Boys, an intrepid reporter covers the capitalist waterfront.
Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
Caleb Powell reviews an about-to-be published and likely-to-be controversial book by American cultural analyst David Shields
Brian Fawcett reads an 1885 memoir, and discovers a contemporary culture hero, complete with a code of conduct, along with a literary masterpiece.