Mandelman’s Debba

The Debba, by Avner Mandelman. Other Press, July 2010. 368 Pages. $14.95 Paper. Avner Mandelman’s short story collection, Talking to the Enemy, published in 2002, contains as cogent an indictment possible of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Stark prose captures the moral darkness of two peoples trying to get even by separate mandates from God, and their [...]

Nazneen’s Moon

Brian Fawcett reviews Nazneen Sheikh’s unique memoir, Moon Over Marrakesh

Echt! My Enthusiasm Curbed:Terry Rigelhof e-talks with Gordon Lockheed about the works of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje

Gordon Lockheed conducts an electronic Interview with Terry Rigelhof about the work of Anne Michaels and Michael Ondaatje, and their relative absence from Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better and the Best Canadian Novels since 1984

That Sinking Feeling

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the rough seas of capitalism.

Other Voices, Other Realms

International writing in the first decade of the 21st century. How “elsewhere” became merely relative, and the “exotic” referred only to “virtual reality.”

The New Ken Belford: Reaching Out without Selling Out

John Harris gives Ken Belford’s new book of poems the kind of close reading poets ought to be willing to kill to get, even when it doesn’t entirely come out the way they’d want.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eh?

Reading Canadian writing. The conversation continues.

Germans and Indians

Norbert Ruebsaat files a remarkable report on what it’s like to be German amongst the aboriginal and other native peoples on Canada’s West Coast.

1975

1975 I’ve been at this project now for months, reading the shortlisted and winning books. In order to meet the demands of a prize that requires reading 100 or more books, considering the time allotted, jurors must be reading 5 or more books a week. I’m not convinced that is possible—or desirable. How do judges [...]

Adrift on the Ark

Vivien Lougheed reads Margaret Thompson’s animal stories, and thinks about the distance from here to Eden.

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