Renee Rodin’s Reality

February 1, 2011 by  
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Brian Fawcett reviews Renee Rodin’s memoir, Subject to Change. He finds it sweet, and intelligent.

Not An Idiot

December 29, 2010 by  
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Brian Fawcett reviews Montreal writer Doug Harris’ YOU comma Idiot. He likes it a lot.

Tao Lin: American Dork

October 24, 2010 by  
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Caleb Powell prefers great writing to personal branding.

Purple Dog, Purple Prose

October 4, 2010 by  
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Brian Fawcett reviews Patrick Lane’s 2008 debut novel, and finds it, well, overcooked.

Some notes on the Rule of Thugs

September 21, 2010 by  
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Brian Fawcett reviews a recent translation of a 1947 book about fighting the Nazis from within. It generates some new thoughts about Marshall McLuhan’s view of human reality…

Mandelman’s Debba

September 1, 2010 by  
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Caleb Powell reads a tangled Israeli tale.

Nazneen’s Moon

August 4, 2010 by  
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Brian Fawcett reviews Nazneen Sheikh’s unique memoir, Moon Over Marrakesh

That Sinking Feeling

July 5, 2010 by  
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Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the rough seas of capitalism.

Other Voices, Other Realms

June 13, 2010 by  
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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

June 10, 2010 by  
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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.

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