Bedford v. Canada
A letter to the editor I sent today on an issue that bugs me. I’ve ranted about this before here, but I’ve tried to keep my own opinion out of this letter, s...
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Pauline Johnson (1861–1913) was a poet and writer of Mohawk and English descent from the Six Nations territory in Ontario. Her father was an influential and ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson (2003)
We should be grateful that Bryson, best known for his travel writing and occasional linguistic pedantry, decided to rectify his own lack of general scientifi...
Moth Smoke, by Mohsin Hamid (2000)
A first novel by a former New York corporate lawyer of Pakistani birth who quit his job to move back home and write for a living. Set mostly in upper-class P...
World Made By Hand, by James Howard Kunstler (2008)
James Howard Kunstler wrote several novels before this one, but it’s perhaps fair to say that he’s most famous for his non-fiction, in particular The Long Em...