January 2010 issue
/Lights by Rachel Burgess
Read More"Ranvaik Owns This Box"
/Is it possible to defend a group of people who gleefully made rape and torture a part of their lives? Freydis Skaar reviews a new history of the Vikings and finds its author, Robert Ferguson, doing something very close to that.
Read MoreA Celtic Mage’s Muses
/Marc Vincenz interviews Forward Prize-winning poet and translator Robin Robertson, whose newest collection, The Wrecking Light, will be published this year
Read MoreBlast and Scatteration
/John Madera reviews Michael Leong's e.s.p. and recounts the scramble of names, idioms, puns, and wild associations he finds in the poems
Read MoreThe Why of the Beholder
/Can Fantagraphics' Spectrum series of contemporary fantasy art yield the same sort of enjoyment as a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Steve Donoghue looks into the newest collection.
Read MoreAdventure.exe
/Phillip A. Lobo leaps from the classic 1970s game Zork to Andrew Hussie's webcomic MS Paint Adventures in his nostalgia-inducing discussion of the allures of interactive fiction computer games
Read More"Did you en-joy the de-mon-stra-tion?"
/Boilerplate traveled the world at the turn of the twentieth century in attempt to dissuade humans from their many wars. Finally, his biography (can such things be?) is revealed, and Lianne Habinek reveals its astonishing contents
Read MoreOver the Old Elms
/It's often forgotten, or ignored, that China has a four-thousand-year-old history as rich and varied as any Western civilization. Hugh Seames hopes that John Keay's immense new book will change some misperceptions about the Middle Kingdom
Read MoreVampires Are SO Last Year
/Lauren Kate's new young adult book Fallen is getting the full Twilight treatment, YouTube trailer and all. Kristin Brower Walker looks into what the book is about beyond all that promotional blitz
Read MoreThe Long and Winding Road
/Jonathan Safran Foer is not the first, but is certainly the most famous, to investigate the ethics of eating animals. Megan Kearns studies both the style and the substance of his argument, with an eye to his less acknowledged allies in vegetarianism
Read MoreThe Wonder of Their Ways
/Two books by Jeff Mynott and Colin Tudge explore why it is that birds have such a hold on our hearts. Honoria St. Cyr adds her observations - on the books and on those little marvels around the feeder.
Read MorePoetry: Solitude
/a poem by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Robertson
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The deity who kills for pleasure will also heal”
/Louise Penny’s newest novel, The Brutal Telling, plunges Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the star of the famed homicide department of the Sûreté du Quebec, into the darkest, most disturbing case of his career. Irma Heldman goes north of the border.
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