Stand For Peace
Stand For Peace
Welcome to the BOOKS page for the author, photographer, singer-songwriter, and writer James Porteous Porteous worked for over 20 years as a digital librarian and archivist in Toronto and then Washington, DC, and Doha, Qatar for CBC and Al Jazeera…
Last year, there were 729 challenges to library, school and university materials and services, according to the American Library Association. Photo: The Nashville Public Library’s banned books library card 06 April 2022 | CNN Staff The Nashville Public Library (NPL)…
An update of a legendary book provides encyclopedic architectural knowledge of the city’s row houses known as Brownstones Cover Photo: Dylan Chandler. Image courtesy of Rizzoli 14 October 2019 | Stefanie Waldek | Architecturald Digest Photographic Timeline of New York…
Siri Hustvedt seeks to reclaim the messiness of motherhood. Aren’t we, she asks, all mixed up, a melange, a mess? Photo: Detail: ‘Mothers, Fathers, and Others’ 20 December 2021 | SHARMILA MUKHERJEE | NPR Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays by Siri…
The Quebecois author was revolutionary in so many ways, she remained a nomad and a devoted advocate for the Francophonie. 30 November 2021 | Staff | Canadian Press | With Additional material MONTREAL — The novelist, playwright and poet Marie-Claire…
(Image credit: Alamy) Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she’s been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the ‘real’ Plath. 21 July 2021 | Lillian Crawford | BBC Culture When…
Photo: Title: Anti-Vietnam War placards surround Toronto’s war memorial in 1969. Photographer: Reg. Innell Date: April 6, 1969 28 July 2021 | The War | James Porteous | Excerpt from All of Me The scorched-earth images from Vietnam were so…
Photo: William F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury The American author wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres as well as as a screenwriter. 18 July 2021 | Mike Glyer | File770 | With additional videos and wire stories By…
Photo: The anthology celebrates the “colourful lives” of Kurdish women, says editor Houzan Mahmoud (AFP/Delil Souleiman) ‘Kurdish Women’s Stories’ gives voice to women who ‘kept the momentum of political struggle in Kurdistan alive’ but whose experiences are often overshadowed 17…
The film follows an 8-day ‘Equinisity’ retreat with animals and nature as well as details on the retreat itself, located in Kamloops BC. This item has been updated owning to a concerning update in the Guardian. Please take the following…
The Good Lord is so fed up with his flock of Hapless Humans. They destroyed the planet and now The Davos Dandies are building hundreds of Freedom Bunkers to shield the 1% and ‘preserve democracy.’ 17 May 2021 | James…
Photo illustration by Bráulio Amado 02 May 2021 | David Marchese | New York Times Magazine (original link) We all have them: cultural figures whom, beyond any single thing they’ve done, we’re just kind of glad to have around, and…
