Issue Seven
Fall/Winter 2007

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Feature Articles:

His Doubtful Excellency
review by Josef Skvorecky

Gabrielle Roy: a passion for writing
review by Linda Rogers

The War Against the Imagination
Trevor Carolan talks to Diane di Prima

Adapting August Strindberg
review by Rachel Wyatt

The Savage Detectives
review by Al Maclachlan

Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Gabrielle Roy: a Passion for Writing by André Vanasse
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• The Space Between a Bed and a Chair: Remembering Tennessee Williams
  By Len Gasparini
• Avanti! The Dharma Poetics of Diane di Prima: Revolutionary Letters
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Stop Making Sense: The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• “I’m a Liberal, You’re an Ideologue, He’s a False Prophet”: Joseph Howe and the Battle for Freedom of Speech, by John Ralston Saul
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner

Departments

• Sound & Fury: “Cartographers of the Heart”:
  Too Lives To Fly: Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth
  Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Healing & Health: Making A Wild Salad, by Dr. Nicolas Kats

Reviews

• His Doubtful Excellency by Jan Drabek
  Reviewed by Josef Skvorecky
• The Poem of Life: a Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins
  Reviewed by Mike Doyle
• “Playing August Strindberg” Miss Julie by August Strindberg, adapted by David French; The Butcher’s Apron by Charles Tidler
  Reviewed by Rachel Wyatt
• Sunrise in Armageddon by Will Alexander
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• “Reclaiming the Mother Tongue”—Speaking in Tongues: PEN Canada Writers in Exile by Maggie Helwig, Ed.
  Reviewed by Sanja Garic-Komnenic
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag
  Reviewed by Michael Hsu
• “Joyful Wisdom from the Old Master”: Back On The Fire by Gary Snyder
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• My Mother is an Alien: Ten Takes on Life and Film by George Melnyk
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• Louisiana In Words by Joshua Clark
  Reviewed by Len Gasparini
• My Mother Agrees With The Dead by Susan Stenson
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the manga-anime revolution by Frederik L. Schodt
  Review by Hillel Wright
• Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries by Brad Warner
  Reviewed by James Eke
• A Memoir of Friendship: Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• I’m a Liberal, You’re an Idealogue, He’s a False Populist: Jospeh Howe and the Battle for Freedom of Speech by John Ralston Saul
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• “Depth Psychology East and West”: The Dalai Lama At MIT by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc, Eds.
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  Reviewed by Al MacLachlan
• Vali Myers: A Memoir
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• “Where Literature Meets Sport”: The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou
  Reviewed by Heather Kerr
• Radiance by Shaena Lambert
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
  Review by Linda Rogers
• The Bone Sharps by Tim Bowling
  Review by Mary Jo Anderson