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2002, Vol. 1, No. 1

Robert Fisk on the Middle East
Pico Iyer - interview
Bowling for Columbine - critique by Cynthia Fuchs
The Trials of Henry Kissinger - critique by J. Tanzer
Art of Les Cosgrove - critique by Robert J. Lewis
John Lavery's The Man With the Stamp
Elizabeth Bishop recites Sonnet (a poem)
Marina Endicott reviews Guy Vanderhaege's THE LAST CROSSING
Ryan McKaken: Of Dogs and Men
Stephen Day: Letter from an Fortunate Refugee
Blues of Ronnie Earl

2003, Vol. 2, No. 1

Arundhati Roy on anti-Americanism
Robert J. Lewis examines Pornography
Tariq Ali: Letter to a Muslim
Talk To Her: film review by Frank Vigorito
Shanghai Ghetto: film review by Elias Savada
Gustavo Sigal, the art of
Juan Manuel Sanchez and Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, the art of
Al Billings: Far Enough South
Robert Haas: poem
Pharaoh Lambert - Music & Poetry
Rochelle Gurstein
: the Mona Lisa
Arthur Kaptainis on modern classical music
Riad Saloojee: the charade of Iraq
The blues of Jimmie Vaughan

2003, Vol. 2, No. 2

Noam Chomsky on Iraq
Mark Kingwell Interview
Review of City of God by KJ Doughton
Art of Guy Benson by Marissa Consiglieri deChackal
David Solway: Recollections of a Pseudo Philosopher
Charles Lambert's All Gone (Short Story)
Robert Fanning poem: My Digital Initimate
Shane Neilson: Political Poetry's Resurgence
Bernard Dubé: The Roil Over Oil
Robert J. Lewis: For Whom The Genes Toll
The Blues of Delbert McClinton

2003, Vol. 2, No. 3

Edward Said: Chronicle of Infitada Foretold
David Solway on Quebec/Richler
IBM and the Nazi Connection
John Malkovich Interview by Tasha Robinson
KJ Doughton reviews Manic (film reivew)
Ryan Bigge essay: Everything Falls Apart
Robert Lewis reviews Man Without A Past (film review)
Sean Johnston's The Underdog (short story)
Art of Eric Carlos Bertrand by Maya Khankhoje
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: Photography
The Blues of Ray Bonneville by Emanuel Pordes

2003, Vol. 2, No. 4

Noam Chomsky on Collateral Damage
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward's Nudes
Aaron Wherry: Pop Divas, Pantydom and 3-Chord Ditties
Robert J. Lewis: Guitars, Gonads & Groupies are Wild
KJ Doughton reviews Magdalene Sisters (film review)
Eric Ormbsy reviews David Solway's RANDOM WALKS
Anne Simpson: 7 Poems
Naomi Klein reviews Letters to a Young Acitivist (book reiview)
Art of Lyne Bastien reviewed by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
The Blues of Derek Trucks

2003, Vol. 2, No 5

Jean Beaudrillard: Historicizing the Millenium
Michael Albert: Buying Dreams
Robert J. Lewis: On Immigration Policy
Cynthia Fuchs reviews Dirty Pretty Things (film review)
Hoagy Carmichael Interview
Al Billings: Half-Hidden Road (Memoir)
Nabeela Sheikh: True Romance (Short Story)
Robert James Berry: The Ocean (poem)
The Art of Kapil Harnal by Sarah Bagnall and Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
Michael Jackson: Sleeping With the Enemy
The Blues of Chocolate Genuis (American Splendor)

2004, Vol. 3, No. 1

Michael Moore: Face It, You'll Never Be Rich
Donald Morgenson: The Love of Laughter
Barbarian Invasions reviewed by KJ Doughton
Fog of War reviewed by Colin Speaker
Scott Michaelson & Scott Shershow: The Lieber Code/Law of Sovereign Exception
Art of Magdalena Magiera by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
Art of Nguyen TAI by Marissa de Consiglieri de Chackal
The Jazz Guitar of Tommy Emanuel
The Blues of Colin Lindon
Robert J. Lewis: Ethnicity and Self-Hatred
Angels of Mercy: Interview with Palliative Care Specialist

2004, Vol. 3, No. 2

Mark Kingwell: Making of Media Icon
Robert J. Lewis critiques Roberto Romei Rotondo's THE ROAMERS
Prostitution: Gender-based income redistibution with honor and dignity
The art of Nicole St. Pierre by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
Patricia Sarrafian Ward: The Bullet Connection (short story)
Jason Anderson reviews film The Corporation
Lester Pimental reviews film Blind Shaft
Jazz pianist John Stetch
Blues of Robert Jr. Lockwood

2004, Vol. 3, No. 3

Justin Podur on Chiapas: Ten Years After
Bruce Cockburn Interview
Robert J. Lewis: Installation Art
PISS CHRIST, part I
Art of Charles Malinsky by R. Rozsa
Penis Dimensions - Spam and your Penis
Elias Savada reviews The Station Agent
Sally Fallon and Mary Enig: The Soya Bean Conspiracy
Aaron Wherry: American Ideal
Harry Manx sings A Little Cruel
Susie Arioli sings Now I Know

2004, Vol. 3, No. 4

Josey Vogels : Kidde Porn, The Internet and Uncommon Sense
EMBALMER, The Confessions of
PISS CHRIST , part II
The sculpture of Armand Vaillancourt by Robert J. Lewis
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: bathtub photography
Dr. Joe Schwarcz talks about toxins
Cynthia Fuchs reviews the film The Agronomist
Diana Krall interview by Aaron Wherry
Tom Carroll Cartoon
The art of Marc Fortier by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
Jazz singer Coral Egan
Blues of Otis Spann

2004, Vol. 3, No. 5

Michael Albert : Capitalism at the Crossroads
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: Live Art
Katherine Czapp: The Ubiquity of Mercury
Robert J. Lewis: The Michelle Pfeiffer Effect
Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Oxygenating Athletes and Banned Substances
Robert J. Lewis: The Greatest Lie Ever: 20th Century Dress
Cynthia Fuchs reviews Maria Full of Grace
Rare Pearls (art review) by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
Jazz singer Stacey Kent
Blues of Ana Popovic

2004, Vol. 3, No. 6

Richard Rodriguez : Asians and Mexicans Count, Too.
Josey Vogels: Sex Traders in the Material World
Guy Saddy: Is Prog Rock on the Rocks
Lori Lipinski: Milk - The Dairy Industry's Tarnished Angel
Michael Taol: The Coca Leaf - Cultural Uses and Abuses
Robert J. Lewis: The Meaning of Dreams
Jurgen Fauth reviews the film: S21 - The Killing Machine of the Khume Rouge
Barbara Lefcowitz - fiction: The Girl from Albania
Bernard Dubé: Photo Essay
Jazz singer Carol Welsman

2005, Vol. 4, No. 1

Barbara Ehrenreich: A Uterus Is No Substitute for a Conscience
Interview : Bob DYLAN
Christopher Hitchens & Tariq Ali Debate Iraq
Robert J. Lewis: Bad Belly in Delhi
Riad Saloojee: Into the Art and Heart of Fasting
Wayne Bremser: The Lost Language of Jazz In an On-line Age
Jenn Clamen: Sex Workers of the World Unite
Paul Ingraham: The Anatomy of Vitality
Maya Khankhoje: The art of Remigio Valdes de Hoyos
Elbert Ventura reviews the film In This World
Jazz: Aldo Romano Jazz singer Carol Welsman

2005, Vol. 4, No. 2

Leonard Cohen: with PICO IYER & LEON WIESELTIER
Charles Lewis: American Jihad Against Transparency & Accountabiility
Robert J. Lewis: Divine Right & the Unrevolted Masses
Farmed Salmon : Why Are We Eating It
Michael Parenti: Are Hetrosexuals Worthy of Marriage?
Albert Ventura: America's Fear of Foreign Film
Buffalo Boy reviwed by KJ Doughton
The Art of MADY reviewed by Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
David Steinberg: Sex and Fine Art
Holt & Skov: Blobobjects and Beyond
Jazz: Denzal Sinclaire

2005, Vol. 4, No. 3

Bill Moyers: No Tomorrow
Eugene Oscapella: Prohibition Doesn't Work
David Steinberg: G-Strings & Symnpapthy - Book Revew
Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Are Organic Vegetables Healthier?
Robert J. Lewis: Rap Music - Truth & Consequences
The Art of MYLENE GERVAIS reviewed by Lydia Schrufer
Romeo Dallaire: Shake Hands with the Devil reviwed John Griffin
Liam Durcan: Nightflight (fiction)
Rochelle Gurstein:On the Misery of Strangers
Margarete Scmerville: On Same Sex Marriage
Jazz: Madeleine Peyroux
Music: Martha Wainwright

2005, Vol. 4, No. 4

Thomas Friedman: Interviewed by Nayan Chandra
Robert J. Lewis: Michael Jackson: Manchild in a Promised Land
Born Into Brothels reviewed by Ken Eisner
Stephen Lewis: Aids Has a Woman's Face
Coconut Oil Rehabilitated by Mary Enig
The Art of CHRISTINA COLEMAN by Lydia Schrufer
Stuart Lenig: Film Essay - Zombies Are Us
Jazz: Bireli Lagrene

2005, Vol. 4, No. 5

Noam Chomsky: by Cynthia Peters
J.A. Quaytman - Michael Jackson: Another Seduction
Head-On reviewed by John Griffin
Julius Grey: The Paradox of Rules and Regulations
Robert Jensen: Into the Heart of Whiteness
Zhang Yimou interviewed by Barbara London
Ingrid Rice Cartoon
The art of LAURA HOLLICK by Lydia Schrufer
Di Caelers: Music and the Immune System
Robert J. Lewis: The Eclectic Switch
Jazz: Sonido Isleno by Diane Gordon

2005, Vol. 4, No. 6

Naomi Klein: Fences of Enclosure
Janis Ian: Are Downloaders Freeloaders?
Josey Vogels: 21st CENTURY SEX
Robert J. Lewis: Melody and Mind
Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Can Red Meat Take the Heat?
Gary Wisby: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Randy Bish: Cartoon
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: Photos of a One-armed Nude
Dan Stefik Film Review - The Edukators
Between Sets: Marc Jordan
Jazz: Sylvain Provost & Norman Lachapelle

2006, Vol. 5, No. 1

Evelyn Lau: The Chink Word
Dan Stefik Film Review - Water
Mecca, Feminism & Modernity Irshad Manji
Diane Gordon: The Roil Over Oil
John Pahle: Tehran's USA Red Brick Wall?
Robert J. Lewis: Confessions of a Chronophobe
Ingrid Rice: Cartoon
Art of Louise Jalbert by Lydia Schrufer
Between Sets: Juana Molina by Serge Gamache
Jazz: Samina

2006, Vol. 5, No. 2

Female Genital Mutilation: by B.A. Robinson
Jim Morrison: Life and Death reviewed by Serge Gamache
Michael Whealen reviews Cormac McCarthy
David Solway on James Joyce: Reading the Encyclopedia Dementia
Karel Sloane: A View of Nature
Graeme Mackay: Cartoon
Phillip Routh: The Sea Gull
Robert J. Lewis: On the Road in Peru
Samsara: film review by Hana Benveniste
The art of Rosemary Scanlon by Lydia Schruter Between Sets: Paulo Ramos by Diane Gordon
Jazz: Kevin Breit

2006, Vol. 5, No. 3

Robert J. Lewis: Cycle Hype or Genotype
Geoff Olson: The Seven Spins
John Lavery: Yuri and the King Crab
G.L. Mind: Being Gazed Upon
Tsotsi: film reviewed by KJ Doughton
Big Sugar: documentary reviewed by Daniel Stefik
Mark Goldfarb: CELL PHONE USERS BEWARE
Howard Richler: Yinglish Schminglish
Andy Singer's Cartoon
The art of Ultralab by Lydia Schruter
Jazz: Sophie Milman

2006, Vol. 5, No. 4

Female Genital Mutilation Part II: with Erica Pomerance
Margeret Somerville:Against Euthanasia
Ken Eisner reviews C.R.A.Z.Y.
Noushin Ehsan: Relfections on Museum Design
Peter McMillan: Clash of Civlizations
Thomas I. Palley: Dollar Lust
Genovali & Darimont: No Chances with Wolves
Howard Richler: The Significant Other Conundrum
Robert J. Lewis: Truth & Forgery
Kristen Pauch-Nolin: Stiches, Bitches and a Few Strands of Pubic Hair
Jazz: Annie Poulain

2006, Vol. 5, No. 5

On the Passing of ORIANA FALLACI: by Robert J. Lewis
Judy Rebick:Being Woman in Iraq
Donna Nebenzahl reviews The Omnivore's Dilemma
Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Bean Food
Daniel Quinn: Schooling, The Hidden Agenda
The Gambaroff Family of Artsts by Lydia Schrufer
Geoff Olson: The 7 Deadly Spins
A Long Walk (Eiji Okuda) - film review
Bill Lleak Cartoon
Jazz: Coco Zhao

2006, Vol. 5, No. 6

Micheal Pollan: Retreat from Meat
Robert J Lewis: Fear & Trembling in the Age of Terror
Geoff Olson: The 7 Deadly Spins - Envy
Peter Christoff reviews Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers
Anita Roy: At Play in the Garbage Fields of the Lord
An Inconvenient Truth:by Chris Knight
Abbas Zaidi: Story Behind a Short Story
G. K. Chesterton: The Terror of a Toy
The Art of Francine Hébert by Lydia Schrufer
Bill Leak Cartoon
Jazz: Badi Assad
Jazz: Pat Martino

2007, Vol. 6, No. 1

Noam Chomsky: US Against Sovereign Iraq
Robert J Lewis: In Praise of Envy
Mukhtaran Mai: The Shape of Rape in Pakistan
Dweezil Zappa:Interviewed by Mr. Bonzai
Mark Goldfarb: Hurts & Alerts
Marcel Dubois: Photography of
Kent Turner reviews the film Sisters in Law
Paul Ingraham: Ten Trillion Cells Walked into a Bar
Anita Roy: Ma River Ganges
Jazz: Michel Donato & Guillaume Bouchard - Bass Duo
Classical: Jerry Gerber
Between Sets: Luis de Godoy

2007, Vol. 6, No. 2

Michael Parenti: How Wealth Creates Poverty
Robert J. Lewis: Pet Obsessions
Scott Foundas reviews the film Send in a Bullet
Dr. Joe Schwarcz: Pesticides Per Trillion
The Art of Ruben Cuckier by Lydia Schrufer
Anita Roy: Blogger Down
Howard Richler: The Oxfordization of Poutine
Abbas Zaidi: Short Fiction - The Man Who Would Be Remembered
David Sanderson reviews film Banking on Heaven
Jazz: Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet on a Storm

2007, Vol. 6, No. 3

David Solway: Unveiling the Terrorist Mind
Phyllis Chesler: Secular Islam on the Rise
Roi Ben Yehuda reviews Faith Without Fear (Irshad Manji)
Rawi Hage: Interview + Book Review
Marie Rose Williams - The Great Teflon Lie & Toxicity
Robert J. Lewis: Death Wish 7 Billion
Tracy Robinson: When Fire Reigns
The Art of Raka B. Saha by Debbie Oliver
The Art of Purvis Young by Dindy Yokel
Jazz: John Roney & Jim Doxas
Jazz: Ivanhoe & Bathyscaphe

2007, Vol. 6, No. 4

Robert J. Lewis: On Cruising
Justin Podur: Global Warming
Peter Goddard: The Sex-Art of Jesika Joy
David Solway: The Big Lie: Terror, Antisemitism & Identity
Brian Zaikowski - Cartoon
The Art of William Kinnis and Dominique Tremblay by Lydia Schrufer
Serge Gamache reviews The Chinese Botanist's Daughter
Fawaz Gerges: Seething Anger in a Broken Middle East
Jazz: Russell Malone

2007, Vol. 6, No. 5

Robert J. Lewis: The Rebuke
Robert Cockburn: The Epidemic of Counterfeit Drugs
John Kelman - The Music of Dhaser Youssef
Paula Rothenberg: Feminism Now and Then
H.L.Mencken - The Zoo
Phillip Routh reviews Philip Roth's Everyman
BEN X: reviewed by Marcel Dubois
Jazz: David Binney

2007, Vol. 6, No. 6

Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of the Itellectual
The BITCH word = blogosphere
Mark Schapiro's Exposed: Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: Photography
Payam Akhavan: Why Iran Wants to Rumble
Phillip Routh: The Rise and Fall of Jerzy Kosinski
Film Review of Rodrigo Pla's La Zona by Marcel Dubois
Robert J. Lewis: In Defense of Martin Heidegger
Aviva Glaser: Exposed - Triclosan, the Ubiquitous Antibacterial
Film Review of Gela Babluani's The Legacy by Sylvain Richard
2007 Millennium Summit Report
Jazz: Kurt Rosenwinkel

2008, Vol. 7, No. 1

Wendy McElroy: In Defense of Pornography
Ayaan Hirst Ali interviewed by Rogier Van BAkel
Rochelle Gurstein: The Pornographic Imagination
Kristen Kosmas - On Violent Men
Film Review of Irina Palm by Philippa Hawker
Robert Jensen's GETTING OFF reviewed by Eleanor Bader
Robert J. Lewis: Prisons of the World Unite
Howard Richler: Can I Have a Word with You?
Aletheia Plankiw: Right-Through Stare
The installation art of Gudrun Vera Hjartardottir by Tamara Schullin
Dindy Yokel: the art of Quilts
Jazz: Mimi Fox

2008, Vol. 7, No. 2

Ernesto Zedillo: Betraying Free Trade
David Solway: Confronting Islam
Jim Fay: The Squaw Word
Allen Casells: Pharmaspeak
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine by Juan Santos
Philippa Hawker reviews 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Kenneth Green: Plastics - Facts & Fictions
Colin Nickerson: Of Microbes and Men
Robert Lewis: Abstract art Isn't Art
Donald Dewey: Cartoon Power
Magie Dominic: The Gown of Stillness (Art)
Jazz: Kurt Elling
Jazz: Voo Doo Scat

2008, Vol. 7, No. 3

Norman Fost: Steroid Hysteria
David Solway: Global Warning
Robert J. Lewis: Fear & Trembling in the Age of Terror
Michael J. Evans: Lost Souls in Kerala
Nick Schrager reviews film XXY
Rahnuma Ahmed: Distances
Tarun Khanna: Food Games in India
Ryan McClelland (artist): The Sleep of Reason(Art)
Jazz: Coral Egan's Magnify

2008, Vol. 7, No. 4

Noam Chomsky: Perils and Alternatives in the Post 9/11 World
Graham Allison: The Dirty Bomb
Bassam M. Madany reviews Robert Spencer's Onward Muslim Soldiers
Donna Jackson Nakazawa: Autoimmune Deficiency
Peter Howell reviews Poor Boy's Game (Clement Virgo)
John Gordon: Saving the Visual Arts
Marcel Dubois: 2008 Montreal Jazz Fest Photos
Natalie Bennett reviews Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization by David Montgomery(Art)
Gilbert Seah reviews film Finn's Girl
Robert J. Lewis: The Genocide Gene
Bernard Dubé reviews photography of John R.S. Gordon
Jazz: Martin Taylor

2008, Vol. 7, No. 5

Nayan Chanda: Parallel Universe
David Solway: Into the Heart of Darkness of the United Nations
Steve Kowit: Odysseus - Sacker of Cities
Wendi Aarons - Maxi Pads Over Troubled Waters
Rosnow & Foster: The Unravelling of Rumour and Gossip
Peter Feldstein: Warm Times Need Cool Heads
Lydia Schrufer - Wrap-ture
Sylvain Richard reviews film Leaving the Fold
Robert J. Lewis: Meditation on the Life-force
William Noguera - Prison Paintings by William Noguerar
Jazz: Jordan Officer

2008, Vol. 7, No. 6

Gore Vidal: Sex, Death & Money
David Solway: Palestine - Mirage in the Desert
Arundhati Roy - India on the Rise
O. J. Simpson: Far From Heaven by Robert J. Lewis
Jugu Abraham reviews film The Mourning Forest
Do Vegetarians Live Longer - Report
Taras Grescoe interviewed by Lesley Chesterman
Marcel Dubois reviews film Zift
Michael J. Evens: Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Manita Shine: the Art and Craft by Lydia Schrufer
Laura Archer: art out of Africa by Lydia Schrufer
Jazz: Melody Gardot by Neila Mezynski

2009, Vol. 8, No. 1

David Solway: Situating Honorcide
Mark Goldfarb: The Unconfessed
Charles Moore: Oceans Drowning in Plastic
Geoff Olson: The Seven Deadly Spins (Pride)
Sadanande Dhume: Fear & Trembling in Mumbai
Thomas Sullivan: Homeland Insecurity
Roger Collier: No Left Turn
Sylvain Richard reviews film Truffe
Sylvain Richard reviews film Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Donald Dewey: History of Humour in Cinema
Robert J. Lewis: And the Wretched Shall Rise
Ken Matsumoto (Sculptor) by Neila Mezynski
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward (photo essay): Mexican Nostalgia
Jazz: Jean Vanasse

2009, Vol. 8, No. 2

David Solway: Reign of Mediacracy
Mark Goldfarb: Chicken Belittled
Karen Davis: Battered Hen
Jim Muirhead: Invasion of Jelly Fish
Jesika Joy: Deconstructing Sexual Art
Margaret Somerville: Apes and Ethics
Farzana Hassan: Ban the Hijab
Yahia Labadid: Notes on Silence
Miriam Cross reviews film Before Tomorrow
Sylvain Richard reviews film Assembly
Michael J. Evans: Swimming with Shiva
Robert J. Lewis: On the Origins of Opinions
David Lieber: Poetry (For My Cat)
The Art of Amy Bernays by Lydia Schrufer
Jazz: Yves Léveillé

2009, Vol. 8, No. 3

Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food
David Solway: First They Take Jerusalem, Then Everything Else
Sudanand Dhume: Slumdog Economics
Shiela Basur: Noise and your Health
Bruce Korol: Get Government out of Marriage
Yahia Lababidi: Michael Jackson - The Awe and the Aw
Sylvain Richard reviews film Paraiso Travel
Sylvain Richard reviews film Necessities of Life
Bernard Dubé: To Pommel a Tamil Tiger
Robert J. Lewis: What I Saw in the Maw of Love & Hate
Jazz: Sylvain Provost

2009, Vol. 8, No. 4

David Solway:A Huge Serving of Academia Nuts
Mafooz Kanwar: Tolerance Misplaced
Anne Michaels: Nubian Exodust
Gail Johnson reviews Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Yahia Lababidi: Belly Dancer at the Wedding
Sarah Schwab: Modern Art at the Crossroads
Sylvain Richard reviews film Moment of Freedom
Dindy Yokel: Howard Fenster's Paradise Gardens
Robert J. Lewis: Imagination is Funny
Jazz: Somi

2009, Vol. 8, No. 5

David Solway:IRAN - BOMBAST AND THE BOMB
Cythia Peters: 21st Century Sexuality
Shahidul Alam: Shooting Nelson Mandela
Howard Richer: As You Like It
Ramin Sadighi and Sohrab Mahdavi: The Music Does Not Remain the Same
Yahia Lababidi: Always on Susan Sontag
Michael Richardson: Mekong Delta Blues
Sylvain Richard reviews film Blood River
Robert J. Lewis: My Gypsy Wife Tonight
Sylvain Richard reviews film Cryptic
Wendy Beccaccini: The Art of Owen York
Jazz: Luciana Souza

2009, Vol. 8, No. 6

Rory Stewart - The Irrisistable Illusion
David Solway:Talking Back to Talkbackers
Howard Richler: Oh Canada, We Stand on Car and Freeze
Sunny Lewis: Poisonous Brown Cloud
Josh Freed: Pocket Revolution
Yahia Lababidi: The Art of Fasting
Donald Dewey: Being & Disconnectedness
Robert J. Lewis reviews film Cole
Sylvain Richard reviews film By the Will of Genghis Kahn
Robert J. Lewis: Making a Quilt out of Collective Guilt
James Davis: Maraton Monks
Francic diClemente: Only the Lonely
The art of RENA MEREN reviewed by Lydia Schrufer
Jazz: PATRICIA BARBER reviewed by Neila Mezysski

2010, Vol. 9, No. 1

The Doors:Robby Krieger Interview
David Solway: Sunset of American Power
Shelina Merani: Burking the Burqa
Mona Eltahaway: Threats, No Regrets and Minarets
Robert J. Lewis: Alt Zionism
Yahia Lababidi Critiques Herman Melville's Bartleby
Anti Aging is no longer science fiction: A report
Vivek Wadhwa: Brain Drain
Sylvain Richard reviews film The Concert
Aashish Kaul: The Passage (short story)
Philip Concannon reviews film Johnnie Mad Dog
Jazz: Jill Barber reviewed by Adrian Mack

2010, Vol. 9, No. 2

David Solway: A Culture of Losers
Thabiti Lewis: Perceptions of Black Masculinity
Mary Kay: Avatar Thumbed in China
Laura Barclay: Jogging Against Alzheimer's
Alan Cassels: Drug Companies Don't Care
Megan Kearns reviews Eating Animals
Bill Moyers' Polluted Body
Stephen Farber reviews film Farewell
Robert J. Lewis: The Beautiful Versus Everything Else
Darcy Paquet reviews film Weaving Girl
David Lieber: This Just In - Haitians Are Dignified (photo essay)
David Solway: Going Cold Turkey

2010, Vol. 9, No. 3

David Solway: My Name is Kahn and I am Not a Terrorist
Michael Baumann: Church Enabled Pedophilia
Jesse Bering: Female Orgasm Redux
Gavin McInnes: Hipster Porn
Jean Kazes: Raw Food, What's It Good For
Robert J. Lewis: All That Montreal Jazz
Brendan O'Neill: Weaponizing Mozart
C. Prince reviews film The Clone Returns Home
Gary L. Olson reviews The Empathetic Civilization and Wired for War
Howard Richler: The Enigmatic Palindrome
Ilaria Maria Sala: Cooking Up Islamophobia in Italy
Robert J. Lewis: We Are the Miracle

2010, Vol. 9, No. 4

David Solway: America and Her Allies
Robert J. Lewis: Hijackers, Hookers and Paradise Now
Victor Diaz Lamich: Shooting the Dead
Nancy Snipper: Latin American Cinema Comes of Age
Maywa Montenegro: Organic Farming - Facts and Fictions
John Zmirak: Fake Virtues Are Worse Than Vices
Emily St. John: Notes on Disappearance
Susan Froetschel: Soft Power and Soaps
Dindy Yokel: The Passing of Artist Purvis Young
Jazz: Chet Doxas

2010, Vol. 9, No. 5

David Solway: Liberty or Tyranny
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: iPhone Nudes
Katherine Evans: Living Dolls
Michael Pulsford: Temporal Warp, the Brain and Music
Eric Randolph: India - Revolt of the Minuses
Andrew Taggart: Philosophy, What's It Good For
Donald Dewey: It's a Kindergarten Life
Christopher Campbell reviews film Into Eternity
Robert J. Lewis: 1-800-Philosophy
Alan Cassels: Drug Bust
Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid
Nancy Snipper: reviews film Che, Un Hombre Nuevoe
Jazz: François Bourassa

2010, Vol. 9, No. 6

Riaz Hassan: My Life As A Weapon
Alan Cassels: Selling Sickness
Donald Hilton: How Pornography Changes Your Brain
Wendy Smith: Jimi & Janis
Tatiana Bužeková and Monika Išová: Intimacy and Disgust
Kissing Up to Kashmir: Arundhati Roy
Gordon Marino: Boxing and Aristotle
David Solway: The Madness of Reactive Politics
Robert J. Lewis: Lover's Recourse
Margaret Somerville: Are Humans Special?
Farzana Hassan reviews Tarek Fatah's The Jew Is Not My Enemy
The sculpture of David Moore by Lydia Schrufer
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward: Dressed to Kill in the Age of Pornography
Laura Archer: Kidnapped in Darfur
Jazz: Sylvain Luc

2011, Vol. 10, No. 1
Thus Spake: Lewis Lapham by Christopher Graham
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Unveiling Hip-Hop
Richard Klein: Against Health
David Solway: Palin for President?
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: The Importance of Being Cool
Jaimie Baron:The Inappropriate Woman in Film
Beverly Quesdat-film review: When We Leave
Darin M. McMahon: The History of Happiness
Nandini Nair: Standup (Comedy) for Your Rights
Donald Dewey: The Gratification Gene and Consequences
Farzana Hassan-book review: The Grand Design (Stephen Hawking)
Robert J. Lewis: Before Good and Evil
Jazz: Neil Cowley
2011, Vol. 10, No. 2

David Solway: Utopia - Good Place or No Place?
Marina Adshade: Why Black Women Are Against Interracial Marriage
Robert J. Lewis Robert Mapplethorpe: The Heterosexual Dictatorship
Yoav J. Tenembaum: Deconstructing Tolerance
Todd Simmons (book review) Holy Shit - Managing Manure
J. A. Quaytman: Suicide Bombers - The Paradox of Power
Thabiti Lewis: Academic Burdens on Black Athletes
Shawn Connor interviews Linda McQuaig
Donald. A. Collins: Apocalypse Soon
Geoff Olson: A Walk with Mother Down Memory Lame
Farzana Hassan-book review: The Islamist (Ed Husain)
Howard Richler: No Apology for Neology
Rick Poynor: Does Quality Matter in Art?
Ron Wilkinson reviews film Lola
Carol R. Scott - A Reluctant Collector

2011, Vol. 10, No. 3

Noam Chomsky: The Status of Freedom of Speech
David Solway: The Multiculti Tango
Douglas Farrow: Blurring of Sexual Boundaries
Jessi Fischer: The Vilification of Male Sexuality
Nick Crowe reviews David Bowie bio
Jujube: Why I Don't Want Biracial Children
Marcel Gleiser: Is Existence Inevitable?
Eman Al Nafjan: Child Marriage in Saudi Arabia
Donald Dewey: Writers as Ideas
Ellena Savage: The Uses and Abuses of Contempt
Women in the Dirt: Documentary reviewed by Lydia Schrufer
Farzana Hassan reviews Toby Huff's Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
Susan Moeller: Getting Cruised by the News
Robert J. Lewis: The Unrevolted Masses Redux
Jazz: Marianne Trudel

2011, Vol. 10, No. 4

George Scialabba: Hitchens Takes on Chomsky
David Solway: Deconstructing Chomsky
Katrina Fox: Our Desires Versus Best Intentions
Hugo Schwyzer: Why Older Men Lust After Younger Women
Peter Moskos: In Defense of Flogging
Robert J. Lewis: Being and Baggage
Gary Olson reviews Masculinity, Militarism and Empathy
Chris Toensing: That Fateful Choice
Farzana Hassan reviews Islam & Democracy (Esposito & Voll)
Jazz: Florence K

2011, Vol. 10, No. 5

David Solway: When a Civilization Goes Mad
Elizabeth Abbott: Mutiny on the Bountiful (Polygamy)
Exchanging Naked Pics with Malcom Harris & Helena Fitzgerald

Imani Perry: Black Beauties
Paul Boghossian: Negotiating Moral Relativism
Jeffrey Tucker: Bad Faith Environmentalism
Maria Bustillos: The PrudeVersus the Prurient
Robert J. Lewis: Let's Get Cultured
Farzana Hassan reviews: The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Jihad (Walid Phares)
Bonnie Costello: Running Amok in Malaise-Ya
Between Sets: Sissoko (Kora) $ Segal (Cello)
Jazz: Terez Montcalm

2011, Vol. 10, No. 6

David Solway: The Weakness of the West
Navi Pillay: Corrective Rape
Scott McLemee: Humiliation and Virility
Wahajat Ali: Islamophobia in America
Louis René Beres: Disappearance of Philosopher Kings
Alexander Edmonds: Does Plastic Surgery Heal the Mind?
Alan Cassels: The Myth of the Greying Tsunami
Chris Barsanti reviews (film) A Bitter Taste of Freedom
Farzana Hassan reviews (book) Why Catholics are Right (Michael Coren)
Emily Badger: Rescuing Languages
Guy Sorman: Sharia at Loggerheads with Capitalism
Deane-Peter Baker: Just Warriors
David Solway reviews (book) A Delectable Lie (Salim Mansur)
Robert J. Lewis: Why Don't We Do It in the Road
Jazz: Cyrus Chestnut

2012, Vol. 11, No. 1

David Solway: Deconstructing the State
Gary Olson: Martin Luther King's Dream in the Balance
Transsexuality: Break on Through to the Other Side
Lisa Hickey: Chasing Beauty
QRG: Rape Culture and Other Myths
Louis René Beres: Malaise in the Age of Social Networking
Paul Wallace: Believing in Johnny Cash
Michael Ruse: Too Many Books
Robert J. Lewis: Caste the First Stone
Edward Sri; Dictatorship of Relativism
Bhupat Dudi: For the Women of India
Robert Hershorn reviews film Le Havre
Louis René Beres: What is Important
Farzana Hassan reviews The Coming Revolution (Walid Phares)
Jazz: Jill Barber

2012, Vol. 11, No. 2

David Solway: The Socialist Transfer of Wealth
Louis René Beres: Fully Human Meaning of Occupy Wall Street
Tommie Shelby: I Didn't Lose My Faith, I Just Didn't Have It
Tauriq Moose: Is Incest Wrong?
Howard Richler: The Tyranny of Linguistic Correctness Redux
Thomas Rodham: Historic Crimes and National Responsibility
John Kelman: When Is a Jazz Festival Not a Jazz Festival?
Richard Pickard book reviews Empire of the Beetle
Robert J. Lewis: Let There Be Blood
Brian Boyd: Nabokov - Giving Freud the Slip
Nancy Snipper reviews film Presumed Guilty
Farzana Hassan reviews Brit Wits: History of Brit Humour (Iain Ellis)
Lydia Schrufer reviews Hazel Bryce & Jolanta Srprawka
Betsy L. Chunko: Plastics, Toxicity & Everyone's Health

2012, Vol. 11, No. 3

David Solway: Galloping Agraphia
Louis René Beres: War, Truth and the Shadows of Meaning
Shaun Clarkson: Woody Allen and the Golden Age of Kitsch
Ian Williams: Forgetting Christopher Hitchens?
Janice Fiamengo: Saving the Humanities
Robert Weissberg: Dearth of Males on Campus
Samuel Burd filmreviews A Separation
Robert J. Lewis: Feedbackers of the World Unite
Scott McLemee: Deconstructing Disgust
Lane Wallace: Is Unhappiness Toxic?
John Butler bookreviews Warraq's Critique of Edward Said
Donald Dewey: The Overwriting Syndrome
Farzana Hassan bookreviews Unworthy Creature by Aruna Papp
Six Degrees of Jazz: Tord Gustavsen

2012, Vol. 11, No. 4

Louis René Beres: Affirming Life in the Age of Atrocity
David Solway: The Decline of Literate Thought
Robert Joe Stout: Deconstructing the War on Drugs
Susan Greene: Is Solitary Confirement a Crime?
Steven Fink: Islam, Hip-Hop & Freedom
Advaita Kala: Sexual Healing in India
Sugar: The White Death
Robert J. Lewis: Christianity's Genius
Leonard S. Spector: Will Desperate Syria Use Its Chemical Weapons?
Chantal Levesque: Photo Essay - 2012 Montreal Jazz Festival
Six Degrees of Jazz: Sarah MK

2012, Vol. 11, No. 5

Louis René Beres: Our Fractured Union
David Solway: Lefties: Gnostics of Our Time
Robert J. Lewis: God & Sex
Laura Agustin: Sex as Work and Sex Work
Pamela Haag: Muslim Women Seeking non-Monagamous Relationships
Bernard Dubé: Portrait Versus Landscape Photography
Lawrence Weschler: Ceaseless Profusion of Data
Santiago Zabala: I Am Wired, Therefor I Exist
Al Billings: An Old Canadian Sunset
Bruce Bawer reviews David Solway's Global Warning: The Trilas of an Unsettled Science
Six Degrees of Jazz: Julie Lamontagne

2012, Vol. 11, No. 6

Louis René Beres: To Fix a Broken Plant
David Solway: The Intelligence Potential Factor
Zara Stardust: Authenticity in the Sex Trade
Robert J. Lewis: Bikini Jihad in Pamukkale (Turkey)
Jessica Love: Deconstructing Swearing
Raymond Filip: For the Father I Did Not Kill
Kirstin West Savali: Who's Afraid of Being Post-Black in America?
Julie Lamontagne: Is Composed Music Superior to Improvised?
Howard Richler: A Thousand and One Word Phobias
Jonah Lehrer: Does pre-School Really Matter?
Yahia Lababidi: Prisms and Aphorisms
Betsty L. Chunko reviews Trial by Ink (Yahia Lababidi)
Samual Burd reviews Take This Waltz
Six Degrees of Jazz: Vincent Gagnon (piano)

2013, Vol. 12, No. 1

Louis René Beres: Crowds and the Slow Death of America
David Solway: Understanding the Education Mess We're In
Bryan Adams Interview (with Carl Wiser)
Gernot Wagner & Martin Weitzman:
Playing Gods with Weather
Gloria Gilbert: Arsenic In Rice
Nancy Snipper film reviews Beyond These Walls
Philip Ball: The Reign of Light
Robert J. Lewis: Have Idea Will Travel
John Edward: The Coffee Art of Saul Bolanos
Betsy L. Chunko reviews Unveiled (Farzana Hassan)
Six Degrees of Jazz: Susie Arioli & Jordan Officer

2013, Vol. 12, No. 2

David Solway: Infirmative Action
Louis René Beres: The Genocide Gene
Stephen Law: Debating Gay Sex
George Dvorsky: The Filter Theory of Natural Selection
Robert J. Lewis -
Understanding Rape
Russell D. Moore - Christian Fornication
Robert J. Lewis: Have Idea Will Travel
Betsy L. Chunko - The Art of Roberto Romei Rotondo
John Butler - reviews The Girls of Riyadh
Terra Bosart - Hermaphroditism as a Way of Being
Michael J. Coren - Genetically Modified Food is OK
Lydia Schrufer - The Printmaking of Florin Hategan
Six Degrees of Jazz: Jean Félix Mailloux

2013, Vol. 12, No. 3

Louis René Beres: To Fix a Broken Planet
David Solway: Deconstructing David Suzuki
Messay Kebede: What's Wrong with Africa
Marcie A. Hamilton: The New Pope
David Jacobson: The Women of Timbuktu
Daniel Pratt reviews film Revolution (Rob Stewart)
Troy Jollimore: Godless but Good
Jeffrey Hartinger: Sex Behind Bars - Pros & CONS
Daniel Charchuk reviews film The Place Beyond the Pines
Scott McLemee: Unbeleiving Saints, Pious Psychopaths
Robert J. Lewis: The New Virility
Six Degrees of Jazz: Jean Félix Mailloux

2013, Vol. 12, No. 4

Louis René Beres: Facing Future Wars
David Solway: Islam's Infidels
Michele Pridmore-Brown: The Evolving Virgin
Smithsonian: Music is a Drug We Can't Refuse
Laurie Penny: Of Boys & Men
Emily Anthes: Frankenstein's Cat
Robert J. Lewis: The Root Natty Root of Music Fatigue
Nick Catalano: Da Vinci's Demons
John M. Edwards: The Return of Bruce Chatwin
Chantal Levesque: Montreal Jazz Festival (photo essay)
Nancy Snipper reviews Lemon
Gennady Stolyarov II: Don't Say 'NO' to Living Forever
Six Degrees of Jazz: Becky Noble Sextet

2013, Vol. 12, No. 5

David Solway: The Snob Factor Among Conservatives
Louis René Beres: When Science May Not Be Enough
Hazem Kandil: The End of Islamism
Diane Bruk: Beauty Standards and the Influence of the Internet
Scott McLemee: The Longevity Seekers
Howard Richer: How Happy Became Homosexual
Gary Olson: How to Start an Empathy Epidemic
Robert J. Lewis: Dispatches from the Natural Selection Front
Janice Fiamengo: Don't Be That Feminist
Nick Catalano reviews the film Salinger
Six Degrees of Jazz: Vijay Iyer

2013, Vol. 12, No. 6

David Solway: Living in the Age of Contradiction
Louis René Beres: Error, Metaphor and the American Road to War
Nick Catalano: Vermeer Nation
John M.Kang: Does Manly Courage Exist?
James Mayfield: The Rise of the Xenophobic Right
John M. Edwards: Kutna Hora and the Chapel of Bones
Oceans into Acid - The Smithsonian
Robert J. Lewis: Chat Rooms and Infidels
Henry Giroux: America's Descent into Madness
Daniel Charchuk reviews (film) The Past (Faradi)
Six Degrees of Jazz: Lionel Loueke

2014, Vol. 13, No. 1

David Solway: Praying by the Rules
Henry Giroux: The Spectacle of Illiteracy
Roberto Romei Rotondo: LED ZEPPELIN: Greatest Rock Band Ever
Zack Dorfman: Assholes - A Theory
Chantal Levesque: Transylvania - Photo Essay
George Dvorsky: Why Freud Matters
Marilyn Booth: Mapping Women's Arab Movements
Ken Lane: Environmentalism as Next Religion
Santiago Zabala & Robert Sinnerbrink: In Defense of Philosophy
Elena Mariakhino reviews art of Victor Cartagena
Robert J. Lewis: The Long and Winding Jazz Solo
Nick Catalano reviews Russell Shorto's Amsterdam Documentary
John M. Edwards: Hex & Sex in Sumatra
Six Degrees of Jazz: Tia Fuller

 

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