Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century 100817: an excellent critical/anthology work. several stories i have read before (and i...

500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas 261017: this book alternates between inspiring anger and mourning. there is not much...

The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives 230618: this is an excellent work on the getting, living, giving, of beauty. primarily by...

(World Authors Series) 190618: this is the most complete book on Tutuola, without jargon, prejudice on language, on the multiple...

050119: there was an installation art (ia) exhibit at the u gallery last year. i was always busy but finally saw it alone about two weeks...

Barnaby Wright, Peter Vergo, Gemma Blackshaw 130319: not the best images but excellent 3 essays. rather than chronological, this...

Michael E. Uslan (Foreword) 021119: popular culture fascinates me, perhaps because i do not experience it originally as popular culture,...

281219: exactly the text i wish i had read as a young artist... also clarifies some reasons i do not like, for example much oil painting,...

Michael K Laidlaw About 9 000 words #406 3524 31st NW Calgary, Canada T2L 2A5 Email: 4451moana@gmail.com Sunyata House by Michael...

How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures 120116: i have not read critical work on [book:The Great Gatsby|27451] for many years...

210924: exactly what title promises, in two ways, as defined and exhibited by various aspects of our culture, as to its ‘purpose’ in...

Michael K Laidlaw About 2 500 words #406 3524 31st NW Calgary, Canada T2L 2A5 Email: 4451moana@gmail.com ‘Water and Twilight’ or...

William Weaver (Translator) 060119: i am just now making a bookshelf for ‘oulipo’ work and was reminded calvino is one of the names. i...

A Testimony Patrick Creagh(Translator) 080415: brisk, beautiful, clear, concise. this very short book contains many ideas, much emotion,...

210624: when i took art history at u i really did not enjoy it, now i see it everywhere, love it everywhere, am endlessly fascinated by...

Laurent Binet (Translation), Sam Taylor (Translation) 031017: not near as effective for me as his first book. i have been reading...

Alastair McEwen (translator) 141214: just a note: i am glad there are translators, i have read over a third books from languages other...

Geoffrey Brock(Translator) 170814: 'Tell me what you like, I will tell you who you are'- culture Geek credo... this is a fascinating...

Richard Howard (Translator), Roland Barthes (Introduction), Bruce Morisette (Introduction), Anne Minor (Introduction) 210719: these...

300419: great. remember reading it in english when 18 or 19, finally seeing the film in montreal at 24. but it is this cine-roman that...