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RAYMOND BIESINGER’S “B + W” BY DAVE ESO
I travel light, but couldn’t resist buying those posters in Montreal. Their cardboard tube poked out of my pack like an antenna or concealed weapon. One’s a parody crest for the city of Edmonton....
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ESCAPE IS AT HAND: TALES OF A BOY AND A BAND
JOSHUA KLOKE, ETERNAL CAVALIER PRESS It only takes me a couple of pages into Escape is at Hand: Tales of a Boy and a Band for my mind to start wandering, but that’s not a bad thing. Despite the fact...
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DECOMPOSING THE SHADOW: LESSONS FROM THE PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM
JAMES W. JESSO Psychedelic drugs occupy a strange place in Western culture, treated by some as a powerful tool for self-growth and viewed by others as a dangerous recreational pastime for miscreant...
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KICKING FROM BEYOND THE 40
BY ASHAD MUKADAM Football of the North American variety fits nicely into coming-of-age stories, due largely to the camaraderie and structured teamwork, but also due partly to the fact that some kids...
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LONELY END OF THE RINK: CONFESSIONS OF A RELUCTANT GOALIE
BY GRANT LAWRENCE PUBLISHER: DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE With the beginning of every October and the start of another NHL season, Canadians are bombarded with feel-good tales of small-town nobodies who...
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GRANT LAWRENCE’S THE LONELY END OF THE RINK
LONELY NO MORE As the title of his latest book suggests, Grant Lawrence came about the game of hockey hesitantly. Photos in the book of a young bespectacled Lawrence, best known for his day job as the...
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METAL ON ICE (SEAN KELLY; DUNDURN)
HEAVY METAL IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH Books on metal are not new. We see them everywhere lately with biographies, encyclopedias and heavy metal cook books, even! (Seriously, check out Annick Giroux’s...
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THE JESUS LIZARD BOOK
AKASHIC BOOKS 2013 I don’t know what it was about the Jesus Lizard. They made records that were sometimes absolutely impenetrable to listen unless you felt like wrestling with a jackhammer. The music...
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GENDER FAILURE
THE UNCHARTED WORLD OF RETIREMENT FROM BINARY GENDER IDENTITY Growing up, nursery rhymes taught the majority of us about what little girls and boys are made of, but what about people who identify as...
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RISING
RECOUNTING THE FLOOD FROM LOCAL PERSPECTIVES Taylor Lambert is one of those genuine Canadian literary figures who remains at-large and on the horizon. Last year, that horizon filled to the brim with...
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