Reviews

Tony Nardi’s Letters

By Brian Fawcett | November 14, 2006

Brian Fawcett goes to a theatre to find out what’s happening to Canadian film and television actors, and why Tony Nardi is angry about it.

Koji’s Story

By Brian Fawcett | October 16, 2006

Brian Fawcett has a review of one of Vancouver’s better sushi joints, and a good story to tell about why it has survived in a poor location for more than 20 years.

Ramsay Cook’s Elegy

By Brian Fawcett | October 15, 2006

Brian Fawcett reviews Ramsay Cook’s remarkable memoir of his friendship with Pierre Trudeau.

A Comedy of Errors

By Max Fawcett | October 11, 2006

Max Fawcett reviews Randy Boyagoda’s Giller Prize nominated book and discovers more than a few embarassing mistakes.

Young Pierre Trudeau

By Brian Fawcett | September 26, 2006

Brian Fawcett files the full version of a review of Max and Monique Nemni’s biography of the youthful Pierre Trudeau. The short version appeared in Books in Canada a few months ago.

The Rome Airport Hilton

By Brian Fawcett | August 7, 2006

Brian Fawcett stays at the Rome Airport Hilton, and doesn’t much like it

Bad Ideas

By Stan Persky | August 3, 2006

Vancouver writer Heather Pringle rummages through the Nazi archives to tell the chilling story of some of the Third Reich’s lethal ideas.

In Translation

By Norbert Ruebsaat | August 2, 2006

Norbert Ruebsaat rereads Rilke and revisits a cirque.

A Couple of Days at Surf Lodge

By Brian Fawcett | July 26, 2006

Brian Fawcett files a fond report about one of B.C.'s gulf Islands, which has a wealth of conventional virtues, and one that most people wouldn't think is a virtue at all.

Edmund White’s Own Story

By Stan Persky | July 8, 2006

Cats have nine lives. Why can't we? A look at a (gay) "boy's own story."