BOOK REVIEW by ROBERT NIELSEN GENIUS! A TORTUOUS ROUTE HAMILTON REVIEWS HAMILTON MARILYN GEAR PILLING’S On Huron’s Shore [Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2005, $32.24] I always wonder how book reviews came to be written. In most cases, they were probably assigned by some editor, and the reviewers may have been paid for their efforts. In … Continue reading Book Review: Robert Nielsen / Marilyn Gear Pilling
BOOK REVIEW by GEOFF MARTIN A DISCERNIBLE TRAIL: ON RE-READING “IN BED WITH THE WORD” SAN FRANCISCO REVIEWS HAMILTON DANIEL COLEMAN’S In bed with the Word [Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009, $19.95] I first read Daniel Coleman’s In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics aloud in bed, ten years ago this … Continue reading Book Review: Geoff Martin / Daniel Coleman
BOOK REVIEW by DANNY JACOBS No, This Story Would be Mine KELLY S. THOMPSON’S Girls Need Not Apply: Field Notes from the Forces [McClelland & Stewart, 2019] After 60-odd pages of ostracization, verbal abuse, indignities, failures, and physical hardship, an eighteen-year-old Kelly Thompson experiences her first triumph while fieldstripping her weapon during … Continue reading Book Review: Danny Jacobs / Kelly S. Thompson
BOOK REVIEW by NANCY C. DOUBLEDAY HOPE Chair in Peace and Health, McMaster University Towards Less Adversarial Cultures by Ray Cunnington [CreateSpace, 2016] Writing mindfully of the potency of the moment we find ourselves in, and given choices dark and murky, and false news instead of truth, any glimmer of illumination offers … Continue reading Review: Nancy Doubleday / Ray Cunnington
WOVOKA’S DANCE (excerpt from a novel in progress) BY SARAH SCOTT Wovoka’s Dance tells the story of three women in the not too distant future as they struggle to adapt to a world suffering from depleted environmental resources, a collapsing economic system, and rampant social instability. Hisako is the wild and maniacal wife of a wealthy … Continue reading Excerpt • Sarah Scott
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