Book Reviews
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Review of When Miners March by William C. Blizzard
The recording and telling of history have proven to be troublesome for the critically-minded as inconsistencies, innocent mistakes, and downright lies plague much of what readers are given as purported fact. Of course as many realize, the “winners” or those in power have traditionally written history and delivered it in a neat, seemingly indisputable package. Fortunately, honest...
Stuff White People Smash
Reading AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot kept bringing to mind one particular memory from the Summit of the Americas protests in Quebec City a decade ago. On April 20, the first day of the demonstrations, we marched in our thousands towards the fence, behind which 34 heads of state had gathered to hammer out a hemispheric trade deal. Under a hail of catapult-launched teddy...
Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and Seasons
Ever since the Slow Food movement, started by Carlo Petrini in the 1980s, began to gain worldwide attention, “slow” has become the new “it” word. Everything, we are now advised, should be done slowly. From art to parenting to travel, if we have to do it, and if we already can’t find time to do it, the curious solution seems to be to just do it—but even...
Gaia's Garden
I just finished reading this book. I have been reading as many books on permaculture that I can for the past month. This is by far the best book on the subject that I have found. Since permaculture was developed in Australia, most of the books deal with different plant and animal species and you have to constantly exchange north for south and vice versa. This book deals...
The Listener
The Listener , a new graphic novel by Canadian artist David Lester, is a good deal better than its sprawling synopsis makes it sound. Bridging two periods in time—the present and the early 1930s—and numerous countries (Canada, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, etc.), the plot follows an artist named Louise as she travels across Europe, trying to come to terms with a...
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