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

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.

Adrift on the Ark

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

A New, Better Way to Read Canada’s Novels

Rigelhof on the good, the better, and the best.

Naomi Klein’s Excellent Adventures

From brand name bullies to the Chicago Boys, an intrepid reporter covers the capitalist waterfront.

Acknowledging a City’s Dark History

Prince George poet Barry McKinnon enters the millennium.

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