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Feb 8, 2013 by Julia Vella in Postcard Story Contest (1 Comments)
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What I Want to Say
Runner-up in the 2nd Annual Geist Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest. more »
Feb 8, 2013 by J.K. Warman in Postcard Story Contest
Miss Teen Motel 6, et al.
We met when we were young enough to knoweach street, and side street, of our town by name. That beauty changes us and why and how. . . more »
Jul 21, 2008 by Elizabeth Bachinsky in Poetry
My Father’s Hands
Walking along the streets of Paris, watching thousands of tourists using their digital cameras, I remember the way my father held his old Kodak when he took photographs. more »
Apr 4, 2008 by David Albahari in Dispatches (1 Comments)
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On Hashish
On Hashish (Harvard), translated by Howard Eiland and others, collects all of Walter Benjamin’s writings on hashish, drawing on his participation in a series of drug experiments that took place between 1927 and 1934 in Berlin, Marseilles and Ibiza. more »
Jan 24, 2011 by Michael Hayward in Reviews
The Road
The Road travelled by Jack London (Rutgers) is quite a different one. The first in Rutgers’ Subterranean Lives: Chronicles of Alternative America series, London’s Road contains all of the stories that he wrote about his hobo days at the turn of the nineteenth century, riding the rails with tramps who sported “monicas” like New York Tommy, Pacific Slim and Syracuse Shine. In “Hoboes That Pass in the Night,” London tells how he tramped “clear across Canada over three thousand miles of railroad” in 1894, following close on the heels of a hobo named Skysail Jack. more »
Jul 21, 2008 by Michael Hayward in Reviews
Basking Sharks: The Slaughter of BC's Gentle Giants
In 1995, New Star Books in Vancouver launched a series of short (about 100 pages), inexpensive books about nonmainstream subjects in the history and culture of British Columbia. The series is called Transmontanus (that’s “across the mountains” for those of you who don’t know your veni from your vici), and is edited by Terry Glavin. more »
Jul 24, 2007 by Daniel Francis in Reviews
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
David Wootton writes in his introduction to Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Oxford) that he set out to write “a history of different ways of conceiving the human body” (the medieval, the mechanical, the chemical, the genetic) but came to understand that throughout history there has been a fundamental difference between ideas about the body and medical therapies applied to the body: in particular that as ideas changed, therapies did not. more »
Jul 24, 2007 by Stephen Osborne in Reviews