Reviews
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Read MoreBrian Fawcett reviews B.C. poet Ken Belford’s latest book. He likes Belford, but isn’t so sure about the new work.
Read MoreLarry Fagin (1937-2017) thought that a lot of life was “off-the-cuff” and that “prose poems” were one way of conveying that insight.
Read MoreReading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.
Read MoreAs a “cultural geographer” wanders through abandoned industrial buildings in “Curated Decay,” Brian Fawcett wonders whether “autoethnography” is just another fancy academic term for preferring self-therapy to dealing with the mess in Detroit and the rest of a dying planet.
Read MoreHow Albert Camus’s literary classic came into being, despite an absurd world and an absent divinity.
Read MoreReading the far-right subculture.
Read MoreIn Spain’s capital there are absent poets, the absence of government, and terrace cafes on a late summer afternoon
Read MoreVeteran writers Gay Talese and Calvin Trillin come under digital fire. The Old People’s Review of Books rushes to their defense.
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