Read Indies: Baraka Books

2022-05-26T11:36:00-04:00

Who? Where? “Baraka Books is a Québec-based English-language book publisher specializing in creative and political non-fiction, history and historical fiction, and fiction. Our belief is that books are a haven of freedom and that they remain the foremost vector for change.” (About Us) "Les livres Baraka est une maison

Read Indies: Baraka Books2022-05-26T11:36:00-04:00

Summer 2021: In My Stacks

2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

I’ve been to the islands in my summer reading this year: Norwegian, Atlantic Canadian, Jamaican, Greenlandian and Sri Lankan. Roy Jacobsen’s Ingrid trilogy landed in my stack thanks to a reading copy of White Shadow from Biblioasis, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. Partly because I liked the

Summer 2021: In My Stacks2021-11-17T13:57:12-05:00

Here and Elsewhere: Amsterdam

2020-12-01T12:01:48-05:00

When I was a girl, I was obsessed with The Diary of Anne Frank. I reread the first half of it so many times that that part of the spine sheds specks of paper; a couple of years ago, I finally finished reading. Because I knew how it ended,

Here and Elsewhere: Amsterdam2020-12-01T12:01:48-05:00

Mavis Gallant’s “A Recollection” (1983)

2019-07-22T18:18:13-04:00

The previous story ends with an imprisonment: “He had got the woman from church to dining room, and he would keep her there trapped, cornered, threatened, watched, until she yielded to Grippes and told her name – as, in his several incarnations, good Poche had always done.” I’m thinking

Mavis Gallant’s “A Recollection” (1983)2019-07-22T18:18:13-04:00

Mavis Gallant’s “Gabriel Baum 1935-” (1979)

2018-11-28T15:03:06-05:00

When readers meet Gabriel it is 1960 and he is twenty-five years old, fresh from having served in the French army for twenty months in Algeria. “War had never been declared. What Gabriel had engaged in was a long tactical exercise for which there was no compensation except experience.”

Mavis Gallant’s “Gabriel Baum 1935-” (1979)2018-11-28T15:03:06-05:00
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