The poet Czeslaw Milosz died last week in Krakow, Poland, at age 93. Stan Persky has a couple of thoughts.

The Da Vinci Code has sold 10 million copies, spawned a minor industry of counter-books and websites, and Harrison Ford is suiting up for the Hollywood blockbuster version. Stan Persky reads it.

David Banerjee explores the reasons for educating our children through Neil Postman’s The End of Education

Bruce Serafin reads a poet that reminds him of black sausage

Gordon Lockheed reads a locally-produced chapbook of Bloor Street vignettes

Brian Fawcett reviews Alberto Manguel’s memoir of reading to Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges

Stan Persky goes to the movies and sees the face that launched a thousand digitalized ships. Er, Brad Pitt’s face and most of the rest of him.

Brian Fawcett reads Joel Bakan’s The Corporation, and finds it diminished by its rhetorical overkill.

Bruce Serafin reads Don DeLillo’s masterpiece and wonders what a Canadian book of similar scope would sound like. (He has some ideas.)