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Pillow Talk
by Norbert Ruebsaat   
Norbert Ruebsaat examines Alberto Manguel's A Reading Diary while lying unclothed in the bathtub, and discovers some reading preferences of his own.

 
Conquest for Dummies
by Stan Persky   
How to invade, occupy, reconstruct and democratize a Middle Eastern country of your choice. Or, for want of a Plan B, Plan A was lost.

 
Baseball Rashomon
by Brian Fawcett   
Brian Fawcett finds a repeat of Kurosawa's famous multi-view movie Rashomon within a 35 year old baseball prank, but decides that George Bowering's new book, Baseball Love is otherwise well-written and worth reading.

 
Reproductive Technology (Weak End)
by Norbert Ruebsaat   
Norbert Ruebsaat posts a short review of J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man.

 
Gallows Humour
by Norbert Ruebsaat   
Norbert Ruebsaat posts the first of several short reviews, this one of a remarkably detailed memoir of post-war Germany and Austria by Hans-Georg Behr.

 
Blind Man's Bluff
by Stan Persky   
Vladimir: "I'm asking you if it came on you all of a sudden?"Pozzo: "I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune."    --Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

 
Atheists in Foxholes
by Stan Persky   
Given the hordes of religious fanatics who are currently burning flags, effigies, cars, other people's houses of worship, and ultimately, each other, is it time for atheists to poke their heads out of their foxholes and announce that God doesn't exist?

 
For the Listeners
by Guthrie Johnson Gloag   
A Mario Vargas Llosa novel and a circle of rapt listeners in a jungle clearing remind Guthrie Gloag of the heart of storytelling.

 
Parsing the French Diaspora in North America
by Brian Fawcett   
Brian Fawcett reviews Philip Marchand's Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America, and finds it so much better than merely good that he apologizes to its author.  

 
Feasting with Oscar: from De Profundis to Post-Queer
by Stan Persky   
On the centenary of the publication of De Profundis, a meditation on Oscar Wilde.

 
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