Reviews
Brian Fawcett reads a strange and readable book.
Stan Persky considers literary endgames.
Stan Persky reads George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem, and thinks about “The darkness of the mind & the darkness of death, / & in between the bright day, bright city.”
John Harris examines Conrad Black’s treatment of F.D.R. and finds some surprises.
Stan Persky reads Canada’s 2008 novel of the year, and meets some odd birds.
Stan Persky reads Paul Krugman’s new book about the collapse of capitalism, and sees a ghost.
We’re making a list and checking it twice; so is everyone else.
The decline of reading, knowledge and democracy among the young.
Shot-countershot. The story of a director who disappeared into his films.
A trip to hell, carrying plenty of historical baggage