Renee Rodin’s Reality
February 1, 2011 by
Brian Fawcett
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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
Brian Fawcett
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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
Caleb Powell
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Caleb Powell prefers great writing to personal branding.
Purple Dog, Purple Prose
October 4, 2010 by
Brian Fawcett
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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
Brian Fawcett
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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
Caleb Powell
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Caleb Powell reads a tangled Israeli tale.
Nazneen’s Moon
August 4, 2010 by
Brian Fawcett
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Brian Fawcett reviews Nazneen Sheikh’s unique memoir, Moon Over Marrakesh
That Sinking Feeling
July 5, 2010 by
Stan Persky
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Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the rough seas of capitalism.
Other Voices, Other Realms
June 13, 2010 by
Stan Persky
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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
John Harris
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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.


