Psychedelics and Mental Health Years ago, I had the great good fortune to come across a short yet comprehensive cultural history of madness and its treatments as a review assignment for a literary journal. Roy Porter’s Madness, A Short History, while barely 50,000 words, felt almost encyclopedic, such was the grasp of this professorContinue reading “Psychedelics and Mental Health. Non-fiction by Gordon Phinn”
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Winter’s Reward of Words. A Review of Books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Dirty Money, Financial Crime in Canada, Christian Leuprecht & Jamie Ferrill, (McGill/Queens 2023)The Scent of Flowers at Night, Leila Slimani (Coronet, 2023)Stray Dogs, Rawi Hage (Knopf Canada 2023)The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society, Christine Estima (Anansi 2023)Imagining Imagining, Gary Barwin (Wolsak & Wynn 2023)We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, Raja ShehadehContinue reading “Winter’s Reward of Words. A Review of Books by Gordon Phinn”
WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack On October 7th, Hamas terrorists breached the fence separating Gaza from Israel and tortured, raped, mutilated and murdered at least 1200 women, men and children. 1200 women,Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Autumn 2023”
Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn
Words Ignoring Wars Books Referenced: Agent of Change, Huda Mukbil (McGill/Queens 2023)Tabula Rasa, John McFee (Farrar, Straus &Giroux 2023)Paper Trails, Roy MacGregor (Random House Canada 2023)Notes on a Writer’s Life, David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press 2023)The Last News Vendor, Michael Mirolla (Quattro Books 2019)Maze, Hugh Thomas (Invisible Publishing 2019)Jangle Straw, Hugh Thomas (Turret House 2023)CellSea,Continue reading “Words Ignoring Wars. A review of books by Gordon Phinn”
4 poems by Gordon Phinn
For Charles Simic Yes, you were here, for what Now seems an unquantifyable idyll In that picnic of horrors Holding forth in the headlines. Only now do I see that trail of Breadcrumbs, artfully arranged To tempt the idle into exploring The maze of your curiosity. Arriving at a semblance of center One sees theContinue reading “4 poems by Gordon Phinn”
WordCity Literary Journal. Summer 2023
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack For this issue, we asked writers to delve into The Right to Read. For writers, this right is also, inextricably, linked to the right to write. AndContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. Summer 2023”
Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn
Books Referenced: Into the Soul of the World, Brad Wetzler (Hachette Books 2023)The Man Who Hacked the World, Alex Cody Foster (Turner Publishing 2022)Still Pictures, Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Ghosts of the Orphanage, Christine Keneally (Public Affairs 2023)We Were Once a Family, Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2023)Just Once, No More, CharlesContinue reading “Sweating and Reading. an essay of books by Gordon Phinn”
Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Everyone Talking Books Referenced:If Not for You & Other Stories, Niles Reddick (Big Table Publishing 2023)Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice (ECW 2018)Who by Fire, Matti Friedman (Penguin Random House 2022)Inspiring Canadians, Mark Bulgutch (Douglas & MacIntyre 2022)A Book of Days, Patti Smith (Knopf Canada, 2022)Common Tones, Alan Licht, ed. (Blank Forms Editions 2021)ThisContinue reading “Everyone Talking. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
Coasting Through Winter. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Coasting Through Winter Works Referenced: This Is Assisted Dying, Stephanie Green (Scribner 2022)The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster 2022)Gangsters of Capitalism, Jonathan M. Katz (St. Martin’s Press 2021)They Knew, Sarah Kendzior (Flatiron Books 2022)Untold Stories: How The Light Gets In, Michael Posner (Simon & Schuster 2022)The Animals, Cary Fagan (Book*Hug 2022)AContinue reading “Coasting Through Winter. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
Book Basking in Autumn. a review of books by Gordon Phinn
Book Basking in Autumn Books Referenced: Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Isaac Fitzgerald (Bloomsbury 2022)All Of This, Rebecca Woolf (Harper One 2022)Elizabeth Finch, Julian Barnes (Random House 2022)The Razor’s Edge, Karl Jirgens (The Porcupine’s Quill 2022)A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt (Hamish Hamilton 2022)We Are Still Here, Nahid Shahalimi, ed. (Penguin 2021)Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler (U. ofContinue reading “Book Basking in Autumn. a review of books by Gordon Phinn”
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