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Article Tag: Book Review



Book Review

El Tamalito

January 4, 2022

    Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda wrote a passionate ode to the humble onion, acknowledging its importance as a staple […]

Baby tamale, Bebé tamal, Book Review, Conetamalli, Isela Xospa, Iván Pérez Téllez, Maya Khankhoje, Xospatronik

Book Review

The Skin Below the Mask

July 1, 2021

  Easily Fooled, by H. Nigel Thomas Guernica Editions, 2021, 293 pages   It does not matter how sharp and […]

Book Review, Easily Fooled, Guernica Editions, H. Nigel Thomas, Rana Bose

Book Review

The Life and Times of Berthe Morisot

One Madder Woman, a novel by Dede Crane Freehand Books, 2020, 360 pages   The year is 1858, the place, […]

Book Review, Dede Crane, Freehand Books, One Madder Woman, Veena Gokhale

Book Review

Delicate Mosaic

April 10, 2021

Dubois’ visual work has interesting parallels to her writing

Book Review, Hugh Hazelton, Jocelyne Dubois, Memorial Suite, Shoreline Press

Book Review

Approaching the Final Season

indeed, her keen sense of mortality heightens an anxiety-edged but ecstatic awareness that this is it

Aeolus House, Book Review, Brian Campbell, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Dog Poems, Ekstasis Editions, Louise Carson, The Eleventh Hour

Book Review

When the Light of the World Was Subdued: Review and Commentary

It is a celebration of the oral and spiritual traditions of the first poets of what today is known as the United States of America

Book Review, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Maya Khankhoje, W.W. Norton and Company, When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

Book Review

Plague Days: Poetics in the time of COVID-19

June 27, 2020

experimental poetry communicates changing times while remaining timeless

A Poet’s Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet, Book Review, Ekstasis Editions, Louise Carson, Stephen Morrissey

Book Review

Run J Run

October 1, 2019

    Run J Run, Sokol’s latest novel, was published in May this year by Renaissance Press, a publishing company […]

Book Review, Himmat Shinhat, Run J Run, Su J Sokol

Book Review

Radius Islamicus

July 1, 2018

Radius Islamicus by Julian Samuel, Guernica Editions, 2018   “The radius islamicus is the farthest distance a camel part is […]

Book Review, Guernica Editions, Julian Samuel, Nilambri Ghai, Radius Islamicus

Book Review

Land for Fatimah

April 1, 2018

Promises for compensation are made and broken as a matter of course.

Book Review, Guernica, Land for Fatima, Nilambri Ghai, Veena Gokhale

Book Review

Coming to Terms with “Curry Books”

February 11, 2018

“A poisonous, crucial element of this imposed expectation is that brown people and their books should look back, into a past and a place that may never have existed.”

Book Review, Indian Culture, Veena Gokhale

Book Review
Film Review

Musings: Film and Book Reviews

October 7, 2017

Who is (are?) the actual culprit(s?) in both books and in the film? Please do not consider my initial question as a provocation, but as something to be taken literally, although ironically so.

Book Review, Film Review, Pietro Ferrua, Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of America (1993), Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? A Delicious Mystery

Book Review

Too Much and Not the Mood

June 18, 2017

Chew-Bose invites us to meander with her through her thoughts and live with her reflections on a wide variety of subjects touching on relationships, art, movies, music.

Aliya Varma, Book Review, Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood

Book Review

A Propaganda System

January 24, 2017

“Canada has seldom been a benevolent international actor. “

A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, Ashoke Dasgupta, Book Review, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation, Red Publishing/Fernwood Publishing, Yves Engler

Book Review

In the flesh: a tale of deadly beauty

December 27, 2015

  Nelly Arcand, Breakneck, Anvil Press, 2015, 223 pages. Translation by Jacob Homel   Nelly Arcand was a shooting star […]

Book Review, Nelly Arcand, Simon Van Vliet

Book Review

In Praise of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and his book, In Defiance

    This is an adaptation of the presentation I gave at the launch of the English-language edition of Gabriel […]

Book Review, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, In Defiance, Sam Boskey

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