Reviews
Brian Fawcett reviews Philip Marchand’s Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America, and finds it so much better than merely good that he apologizes to its author.
Now playing: not-your-average John Wayne-Western.
On the centenary of the publication of De Profundis, a meditation on Oscar Wilde.
Somewhat belatedly, Brian Fawcett reviews David Solway’s monograph On Being a Jew, published by David Mason…
Vancouver writer Norbert Ruebsaat offers a view of Stan Persky’s The Short Version: an ABC Book (New Star Books, 2005), which you can order from your local bookstore.
Brian Fawcett goes to the movies, somewhat belatedly, and finds something he likes very much.
John Harris reviews Gary Geddes’ new book Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, an Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
Brian Fawcett finds the “real” Global Village at work in a small B.C. town
Poet Robert Creeley, who died last week at age 78, is the subject of Stan Persky’s reflections on poetry.
Admirers call Richard Rorty the most interesting philosopher working today. Critics say he doesn’t believe in Truth. Stan Persky surveys a mind.