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Author: Michael Harris
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Sep 1995
Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Rita Donovan
The books I received for review overwhelmingly focus on family, loss, home and, sometimes, salvation. In certain cases, this involves an emotional land-grab, in others, a temporal rootlessness. Read more...
| Apr 1993
Editor`S Choice
by Christopher Levenson
AS THE Canadian literary community, for all its geographical spread, is small and incestuous, I should start by stating my interest: about four years ago Vehicule turned down my own proposed new-and selected volume because, as Michael Harris explained, although he liked the poems, they were too much like his own. A well-known Canadian woman writer`s poetry manuscript was returned for the identical reason. Read more...
| Feb 1993
Best Of The Rest
by Brian Fawcett
A better-late-than-never look at some notable 1992 titles
LAST YEAR`S grab-bag worthy but unreviewed books contained what I thought, and still think, as the most important book published in Canada in 1991 - Linda McQuaig`s The Quick and the Dead: Brian Mulroney, Big Business, and the Seduction of Canada (Penguin). There are some fine books in the bag this year, but none of them quite matches up to McQuaig`s remarkable volume. Read more...
| Dec 2003
A Review of: Con Game: The Truth about CanadaÆs Prisons
by David Colterjohn
When John Howard was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773,
no one expected him to take his job too seriously. The appointment was
meant as a political sinecure, but since the title included
responsibility for the Bedford jail, Howard decided that he ought to
inspect the premises. He was so appalled at what he saw that he
traveled all over the country on a hopeless quest, seeking a better
example for the local jailer to follow. The result was a landmark
book, The State of Prisons in England and Wales. First published in
1777, the book launched a movement for prison reform that has
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