Issue Twenty-Five

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Claiming the Body of Nelson Algren”: Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work
  of Nelson Algren by Colin Asher; Nonconformity: Writing on Writing by Nelson Algre
  Review by Charles Tidler
• “An Interview with Dr. Wade Davis”
  Interview by Jesse Boyes
• Keetsahnak, edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campell & Christi Belcourt
  Review by Michelle LaFlamme
• “A Refuge from Rage: Milton Acorn and His Poetry”
  Essay by Len Gasparini
• “Son of a Genius: Tosh Berman, A Life in Art”: Tosh: Growing Up in
  Wallace Berman’s World by Tosh Berman
  Review by Colin James Sanders
• Love of the Salish Sea Islands, edited by Mona Fertig
  Review by Paul Falardeau
• Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale
  Review by Carol Ann Sokoloff

Departments

• International Relations: Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars
  in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
  Review by James Edward Reid
• Environment: Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against
  Big Hydro by Sarah Cox
  Review by Rose Morrison
  Bypassing Dystopia by Joyce Nelson
  Review by Rose Morrison
• Pacific Rim: The Fourth String by Janet Pocorobba
  Review by Maryse Cardin
• Music Books: Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty Year Relationship with
  Leonard Cohen by Eric Lerner; Is It Still Good to Ya? by Robert Christgau
  Reviews by Joseph Blake
• Travel: “Asian Travel Accounts from the Higher Heights”: Houseboat on the
  Ganges & A Room in Kathmandu by Marilyn Stablein
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• Science: “Righting the Brain”: The Mind Fixers by Anne Harrington
  Review by Richard Wirick

Reviews

• “He Sings the New Body Electric” The Charge in the Global Membrane by B.W. Powe
  Review by William Kuhns
• Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
  Review by Miles Lowry
• What the Dead Want by Paulette Claire Turcotte
  Review by Krysia Jopek
• “Bill’s Breth: Tending the Wild”: breth / the treez uv lunaria by bill bissett
  Review by Scott Lawrance
• “Two Poetic Debuts Tackle the Lesser Seen in Western Canada”:
  Little Wild by Curtis LeBlanc; Homeless Memorial by John La Greca
  Review by Paul Falardeau
• Taking the Torch: A Political Memoir by Ian Waddell
  Review by Jan Drabek
• A Shameful Life by Osamu Dazai
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• Sound of Wave in Channel by Stephen Ratcliffe
  Review by Orchid Tierney
• If You’re Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free? by Tom Wayman
  Review by Joel Robertson-Taylor
• “Peter Orlovsky: In His Own Right”: A Life in Words by Peter Orlovsky
  Review by Colin James Sanders
• A Lamb by P.W. Bridgman
  Review by John Swanson
• The Fabric of Day by Anne Campbell
  Review by Antonio D’Alfonso
• “La Francophonie: Three Books by Four Poets from Quebec”: Night Blues
  by Yolande Villemaire and Claude Beausoleil; Daring Touch by
  Louise Cotnoir; Woman with Camera by Corinne Larochelle
  Review by Eric Spalding
• The Silence by Karen Lee White
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Ethnology’s Rivers & Tributaries”: Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King
  Review by Richard Wirick
• “Mother Mother”: The Heart Is What Dies Last by Robert Lalonde
  Review by Eric Spalding
• Cantata in Two Voices by Jude Neale and Bonnie Nish
  Review by Fran Bourassa