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Untitled 5 Apr 2013 | 07:22 am
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons This biography, like the earlier one by Ira Nadel, is the next instalment in the fairytale of Leonard Cohen's "life," and repeats some of the...
NIKO -- by Dimitri Nasrallah 10 Feb 2012 | 03:01 pm
My rating: 4 of 5 stars This award-winning novel opens very powerfully in Lebanon during the civil war years when Niko is a small boy and his mother is expecting a second child. The first two chapter...
My little round-up 20 Dec 2011 | 12:55 pm
I did more roofing this year than reading, but looking back these were some of the books that most impressed me... Dave McGowan, Inside the LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and ...
LARA KRAMER: DANCING WITH MEMORY 27 May 2011 | 08:12 pm
Lara Kramer’s FRAGMENTS at NAC in June, 2011 Montreal dancer Lara Kramer’s investigation of her mother’s childhood in residential school – and the dance performance that grew out of it – began in 200...
Imagining Montreal 15 May 2011 | 05:18 am
In imagining Montreal, we have to consider the hidden history of a city that has experienced wave after wave of immigration – or, if you prefer, successive phases of invasion and colonization. Since t...
Kevin Annett in Montreal, March 21 2011 15 Mar 2011 | 08:53 am
Back from his European and UK speaking tour, Canadian author, activist, and whistleblower Kevin Annett is coming to Montreal. An award-winning filmmaker, Kevin Annett will read from his new book, UNRE...
Kevin Annett in Montreal: March 21, 2011 11 Feb 2011 | 06:14 am
I first heard of Kevin Annett back in 2003 when I was researching the story of Cold War experiments on children. Writer Max Wallace asked me if I knew about the former United Church minister out west,...
Ann Diamond Writing Workshop - Lac Selby Writers' Retreat - February 26-28, 2011 9 Feb 2011 | 12:55 pm
Ann Diamond Writing Workshop - Lac Selby Writers' Retreat - February 26-28, 2011 Unforgettable 2-day writing experience in a warm country environment. Regenerate your creativity, connect with oth...
MISSING LYNX and Ho Ho Ho... 17 Dec 2010 | 08:39 am
I get sooo little time to blog, but if I don't write this, my head will explode... and I don't want that to happen right before Christmas. Those of us who have never depended on the Montreal Gazette ...
Military Secrets 8 Dec 2010 | 04:48 am
In the same month that I read Louis Hamelin's stunning new novel, LA CONSTELLATION DU LYNX, whose plot dissects the layers of disinformation like bandages wrapping the mummified corpse of Labor Minist...
