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Spook Country

By William Gibson

Centred around Hollis Henry, a journalist and former rock star, William Gibson’s latest novel is a taut, fast-paced journey into the world of infinite wealth and espionage. Hired originally to write about “locative art,” a ... Read More »

July 30, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway

By Witold Rybczynski

With his new, generously subtitled book, architecture and design writer Witold Rybczynski (who currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design) follows, in considerable detail, the transformation of a tract of agricultural land ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Domain

By Barbara Nickel

While so many poets follow up successful or promising first efforts with a rushed sophomore volume, it’s been 10 years since B.C.-based poet and children’s author Barbara Nickel published The Gladys Elegies, her award-winning debut ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Poetry

No Humans Involved

By Kelley Armstrong

If you read only one “pre-menopausal necromancer dates werewolf and battles fake reality-TV psychics and real-life teen-runaway-abducting cultists” horror novel this year, No Humans Involved might not be the best choice.The seventh of 10 planned ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels