Name: David Barker
Dateline: Toronto
Weblog: theoblog.ca/serendipity
Articles: 14
First Published: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Currently listing articles 14-1:
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Book Review: Utopian Pedagogy - Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization edited by Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter— It is through education that we gain our greatest leverage in resisting globalization.
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Book Review: Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak edited by Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur— Through personal stories, we begin to understand the challenge of living with hyphenated identities in America.
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Book Review: Islam: Between Globalization and Counterterrorism by Ali A. Mazrui— Mazrui considers whether, on a Toynbean theory of civilizations, the rise of Islam signals the end of the American empire.
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Book Review: Jesus - Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary by Marcus Borg— Borg searches for the historical Jesus, not to prove facts, but to reveal meaning.
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Book Review: The Future of the Page edited by Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor— In the shift from print to e-text, is the page losing its significance or is it taking on fresh meanings?
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Book Review: Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson— "If reason is a sixth sense, does it, like the others, lie?"
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Book Review: The Magdalene Moment - A Vision for a New Christianity by Joanna Manning— Starting from the experience of female sexuality, Joanna Manning rethinks what it means to be a Christian in today's world.
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Book Review: Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire by Edward Shorter— Shorter traces our inexorable path to "total body sex" - a fuller engagement in our own sexuality.
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Book Review: The Good Works of Ayela Linde by Charlotte Forbes— Ayela Linde presents a fullness of character that is more than the sum of the words which give her life.
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Book Review: Pound For Pound by F.X. Toole— This is a novel about boxing the same way The Old Man and the Sea is a novel about fishing.
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Book Review: The Wanton Sublime - New Poetry From Anna Rabinowitz— Anna Rabinowitz speaks both to disaffected women of faith, and to anyone who cares about how words intersect with belief.
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Book Review: Jill by G.R. Spiecker— A tract of dubious Catholocism masquerading as dubious fiction. The sin of bad writing is unpardonable.
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Book Review: Mean Boy by Lynn Coady— In this novel Lynn Coady reveals some of the lilt and pacing of her Cape Breton roots.
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Book Review: The Tent by Margaret Atwood— I had taken the book's size in the spirit of a manufacturer's warranty — it would be an easy, breezy read. I was mistaken.
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