Mandelbrot. Broadway SkyTrain Station, Vancouver.
Dancing with Dynamite
Public bombings have a profound effect on cities, even if the bomb is a coconut filled with beans and rice. more »
Mar 2, 2013 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches (1 Comments)
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Stephen Osborne is publisher and editor-in-chief of Geist. He is also the award-winning writer of Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World and dozens of shorter works—most recently “Reading in Summer” (No. 85)—many of which can be read at geist.com.
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Women of Kali
A feminist writer/publisher sought out stories of the partition of India: atrocity and hardship, looting, rape and murder committed by and upon Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. more »
Nov 8, 2012 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches
Illustration: Eric Uhlich
Reading in Summer
Where in the used bookstore would mysteries by Raymond Chandler be shelved - in Novels or in Fiction? Stephen Osborne remembers the summer pleasures of reading outdoors and used bookstores. more »
Jul 9, 2012 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches (1 Comments)
Bill Anders, crew member Apollo 8, Dec 24, 1968, at Mission Time 075:49:07 (16:40 utc)
1968
Stephen Osborne compares the "major problem" of loitering in 1968 Vancouver to the 2012 Occupy movement. more »
Jun 7, 2012 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches
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Shoot!
Biggest Disappointment: Shoot! by George Bowering (Key Porter). I was looking forward to this one because it has Kamloops in it, and the McLean Gang to boot. more »
Mar 14, 2011 by Stephen Osborne in Reviews
The Bird Artist
Best Novel of the last year: The Bird Artist by Howard Norman (Farrar, Straus) is a wonderful, true novel of Newfoundland, which is all the more surprising in that its author is not a Newfoundlander. But clearly he spent enough time there to learn the language, for he writes in the first person, which is a great risk, and he succeeds wonderfully. more »
Mar 13, 2011 by Stephen Osborne in Reviews
Imaging The Arctic
In 1987 in the British Museum, George Qulaut of lgloolik discovered a photograph of his grandmother in an archive of photographs taken by Geraldine Moodie in the Canadian Arctic in 1904. Nine years later the same photograph appeared on a poster announcing a conference called Imagining the Arctic: The Native Photograph in Alaska, Canada and Greenland, at which George Qulaut was the keynote speaker. Last year a collection of papers and photographs presented at the conference appeared as Imaging The Arctic, a big volume published by UBC Press, University of Washington Press and the British Museum—and George Qulaut's grandmother is on the cover. more »
Jan 24, 2011 by Stephen Osborne in Reviews
The Others Raisd in Me: 150 Readings of Sonnet 150
Stephen reviews The Others Raisd in Me: 150 Readings of Sonnet 150 by Gregory Betts (Pedlar Press). more »
Sep 28, 2010 by Stephen Osborne in Reviews