Reviews
Taking a second look at Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury.”
The Grand Tour is more precarious than it used to be.
Longer than a tweet, faster than a Fox News lie, here are some of the books of the year — read, re-read, and not-so-red in the Age of Trumpty-Dumpty.
It’s a flash-mob Greek tragedy. Stan Persky reviews “Adults in the Room,” the political memoir that tells you almost everything you need to know about the EU.
Martha Gellhorn’s journalistic beat covered the globe. Today, there’s more reason than ever to read her dispatches from the front.
John Harris reviews Andrew Struthers’ new book from New Star Press.
Why you need to read this book — now.
Brian Fawcett reviews B.C. poet Ken Belford’s latest book. He likes Belford, but isn’t so sure about the new work.
Larry Fagin (1937-2017) thought that a lot of life was “off-the-cuff” and that “prose poems” were one way of conveying that insight.
Reading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.