Issue Twenty-Six

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Heart Is the Hornbook: In Memory of Michael McClure”
  Essay by John Olson
• “The Searching Heart: Adieu Derek Mahon”
  Essay by John Wilson Foster
• “Reckoning Up Robin Blaser”: A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser by Miriam Nichols
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• “Redress for BC’s Unheralded Artists”: A Pocket Guide to the Unheralded Artists of BC Series, edited by Mona Fertig
  Review by Natalie Lang
• “Crisis? What Crisis?”: Writing Beyond the End Times: The Literatures of Canada and Quebec edited by Ursula Mathis-Moser and Marie Carrière
  Review by Eric Spalding
• “Al Purdy After a Century”: An Echo in the Mountains, edited by Nicholas Bradley
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “China’s ‘Banished Immortal’”: The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• “Making a Difference”: Moon Madness: Dr Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa by Alan Twigg
  Review by Rose Morrison

Departments

• On the Road: “Celebrating Canada’s Tramp Laureate”: Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life by Ian Cutler
  Review by Ryan Pastorchik
• Faith & Ethics: Buddhisms in Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations, edited by Nicholas S. Brasovan and Micheline M. Soong
  Review by Maryse Cardin
• Natural Science: “Marvellous Mushrooms”: Medicinal Mushrooms of Western North America by Robert Rogers and J. Duane Sept
  Review by Jesse Boyes
• Special Report: “Digital Dictatorship and Biocapitalism”
  Essay by Richard Olafson
• Music Books: Jazz from Detroit by Mark Stryker; Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges by Con Chapman
  Reviews by Joseph Blake
• International Relations: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
  Review by James Edward Reid

Reviews

• “A Moral Voice in Uncertain Times”: As Far As You Know by A.F. Moritz
  Review by James Deahl
• The End of Me by John Gould
  Review by Arleen Pare
• Haiku in Canada: History, Poetry, Memoir by Terry Ann Carter
  Review by Joel Robertson-Taylor
• “The Painter and the Pianist”: Ted Harrison’s Rainbow Road by Jan Stirling
  Review by Carol Ann Sokoloff
• A Voluntary Crucifixion by David J. Mackinnon
  Review by Patrick Keeney
• The Eyelid by S.D. Chrostowska
  Review by Allan Graubard
• “The Artist and Ineffable Desire”: Catching Desire by Carmelo Militano
  Review by Lucia Guidorizzi
• Summer Snow by Robert Hass
  Review by Mary Ann Moore
• “Repelled but Seldom Bored”: Ezra Pound, Italy and the Cantos by Massimo Bacigalupo
  Review by Gary Geddes
• Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida
  Review by Carol Ann Sokoloff
• “The Shimmer’s End”: The Town by Shaun Prescott
  Review by Richard Wirick
• “A Slight Shift in Perspective”: A Thousand Pieces by Joanne Morency
  Review by Gillian Harding-Russell
• “The Unsurpassed, Supreme Mantra”: My Heart Sutra by Frederik Schodt
  Review by Maryse Cardin
• Other / Wise by Gregory Dunne
  Review by Terry Ann Carter
• “A Literary Mosaic in Memory of Those Who Served”: Heard Amid the Guns by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael
  Review by Eric Spalding
• “Living the Broken Dream”: Borderline by Marie-Sissi Labrèche
  Review by Paul Falardeau
• The Eleventh Hour by Carolyn Marie Souaid
  Review by Jason Blake
• The Half Life by Roger Greenwald
  Review by Karen Shenfeld
• “One Voice, Multiple Ways of Being”: The Two-Headed Man by Antonio D’Alfonso
  Review by Ana Lúcia Alvim Silva
• “Of Light: Jude Neale’s Impromptu”
  Review by Cynthia Sharp