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Issue 16 (Spring 2009) [download
as pdf]
Sebastian Touza on Marina
Sitrin, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press, 2006)
Andrea Actis on Stephen Collis,
Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry
/ Anarchy / Abstraction (Talonbooks, 2007)
Charles Watts on John Curl, Insurrection/Resurrection (Working
Peoples Artists, 1975)
An Exchange Between Sam
Greenlee and Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (7 April 2007)
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Mihalis Mentinis, Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt
and What It Means for Radical Politics (Pluto Press, 2006)
Reg Johanson so Mark Cote,
Richard J.F. Day and Greig de Peuter, eds, Utopian
Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization (University
of Toronto Press, 2007).
obituary by billy little
Volume 5 Issue 1 (Summer 2007) [download
as pdf]
Fiona Jeffries on
Surveillance Camera Players, We Know You are Watching: Surveillance Camera
Players 1996-2006 (New York: Factory School, 2006)
Jerry Zaslove on Wayne
Burns, Resisting our Culture of Conformity: In the Hills of Southern Ohio
and in the Groves of Academe (Alpine: Blue Daylight Books, 2006)
Clint Burnham on Rob
Manery, It's Not As If It Hasn't Been Said Before (Vancouver: Tsunami
Editions, 2001) [with a letter from Rob Manery]
Judith Copithorne on
Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon: Poems, 1972-1987 (Vancouver: New Star
Books, 2006)
Andrew Klobucar on Slavoj
iek, The Parallax View (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006)
Alan Davies on Clint
Burnham, Rental Van (Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2007)
Michael Barnholden on Eric
W. Ricker and Frances Christopherson, eds., Nanaimo Between Past and Future:
Critical Perspectives on Growth, Planning and the New Nanaimo Centre
(Nanaimo: Friends of Plan Nanaimo Society, 2005)
Volume 4 Issue 2
(Summer-Autumn 2006) [download
as pdf]
Reg Johanson on Mike
Davis, Planet of Slums (London: Verso, 2006)
Percilla Groves on Hugh
Johnson, Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University (Vancouver:
Douglas & McIntyre, 2005)
Michael Barnholden on Jon
Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds., Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New
Poetry (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005) and Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie and
Angela Rawlings, eds., Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Toronto:
The Mercury Press, 2005)
Gregory Placonouris on
George Bowering, Baseball Love (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005)
Lawrence Ytzhak
Braithwaite on Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Bensenville:
Lushena Books, 2002)
Peyman Vahabzadeh on Asef
Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1997)
Lorna Brown on Bill
Jeffries, Glen Lowry and Jerry Zaslove, eds., Unfinished Business:
Photographing Vancouver Streets, 1955 to 1985 (Burnaby: West Coast Line,
2006)
Jeff Shantz on Jorge E.
Hardoy and David Satterthwaite, Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third
World (London: Earthscan, 1989)
Volume 4 Issue 1 (Winter 2006) [download
as pdf]
Harsha Walia on Anna
Pratt, Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (Vancouver:
UBC Press, 2005)
Marie Annharte Baker on
Thomas King, A Short History of Indians in Canada (Toronto: Harper
Collins, 2005)
Fiona Jeffries on Silvia
Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
(New York: Autonomedia, 2004)
Colin Smith on David
Lester, The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2004)
Judith Copithorne on
Daniel f. Bradley, A Boy's First Book of Chlamydia: Poems 1996-2002
(Toronto: BookThug, 2005)
Max Sartin on Michael
Barnholden, Reading The Riot Act: A Brief History of Rioting in Vancouver
(Vancouver: Anvil Press 2005)
Sandy Cameron on Bud Osborn and Richard Tetrault, Signs of the Times
(Vancouver: Paneficio Studios / Anvil Press, 2005)
Roger Farr on Richard Day,
Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements
(Toronto / London: Between the Lines / Pluto Press, 2005)
Marie Annharte Baker's third book of poetry is Exercises in Lip
Pointing; "Borrowing Enemy Language" her classic essay,
appeared first in West Coast Line
in 1993. Sandy Cameron's latest collection is Being True to Ourselves:
Downtown Eastside Poems of Resistance; a selection of his essays, Taking
Another Look at Class, was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
in 1999. Judith Copithorne, one of the original Downtown Poets, so-called, of
Vancouver, was inducted into the Giantesses in 1992. Roger Farr edits the
poetics journal Parser and teaches writing and theory at Capilano
College. Fiona Jeffries writes on resistance to the new enclosures, coordinates
the Counter Culture series at Simon Fraser University and is a member of An Ungrammatical Multitude. Max
Sartin writes for the Insurrectionary
Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories. Colin Smith, author of Multiple
Poses, has, at last, returned to Vancouver after seven years in Winnipeg.
Harsha Walia's recent articles appear online at Znet
and Seven Oaks; she organizes
with No One Is Illegal in Vancouver.
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Index to Books Reviewed in The Rain Volumes I-III (2003-2006)
Edited and Published by Michael Barnholden
"History falls like rain, not everyone gets wet."
>> Editorial
(January 2006). [Michael Barnholden 3:4 (1)]
Alan Antliff, ed., Only
A Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
[Roger Farr 3:1 (1)]
Luanna Armstrong, The Bone House. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2002.
[Michael Barnholden 1:2 (1)]
Joel Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:3 (7)]
Marie Annharte Baker, Exercises
in Lip Pointing. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Reg Johanson 1:1 (7)]
Chris Banks, Bonfires. Toronto: Junction Books, 2003. [Heather Neale 2:2
(2)]
Jean Barman, Maria Mahoi of the Islands. Vancouver: New Star Books,
2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:4 (5)]
Jean Barman, The Remarkable Adventures of Portugese Joe Silvey. Madeira
Park: Harbour Publishing, 2004. [J.M. Bridgeman 2:5 (2)]
David Beers with Russ Francis, Barbara McLintock, Will McMartin, Alisa Smith,
Chris Tenove and others, Liberalized. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005.
[Michael Barnholden 3:2 (1)]
Jonathan Bennet, The Verandah People (Stories). Vancouver: Raincoast
Books, 2003. [Nathaniel G. Moore 2:1 (5)]
Stephen Bett, High Maintenance. Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2003. [John
Tyndall 2:4 (4)]
bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes: text bites. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 2002. [Jamie Reid 1:2 (8)]
bill bissett, narrative enigma/rumours uv hurricane. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]
Jay Black, Guttersnipe. Vancouver: Black Ink Books, 2004. [Michael
Barnholden 2:6 (4)]
Lance Blomgren, Corner Pieces. Montreal: Conundrum, 2004. [Stephen
Collis 3:3 (7)]
George Bowering, Stone Country: An Unauthorized History of Canada.
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (1)]
Daniel f. Bradley, A
Boy's First Book of Chlamydia. Toronto: BookThug, 2005. [Donato Mancini 3:4
(2)]
Brian Brett, Coyote. Saskatoon: Thisledown Press, 2003. [Heather Neale
2:1 (6)]
Chester Brown, Louis Riel: A Comic Strip-Biography. Montreal: Drawn and
Quarterly Publications, 2003. [Michael Barnholden 2:1 (1)]
Justine Brown, Hollywood Utopia. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2002.
[Michael Barnholden 1:1 (4)]
Lester R. Brown, Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization
in Trouble. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2003. [Tom Sandborn 2:6 (7)]
Kim Barry Brunhuber, Kameleon Man. Vancouver: Beach Holme Publishing,
2003. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:2 (3)]
Grant Buday, A Sack of Teeth. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2002. [John Harris
1:2 (4)]
Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, eds., Wobblies! A Graphic History of the
Industrial Workers of the World. New York: Verso, 2005. [Michael Barnholden
3:3 (2)]
Chrystaline Buhler et al, eds., From This New World. Vancouver: Ten
Dollar Words, 2003. [Heather Neale 1:2 (7)]
Bob Burrows, Healing in the Wilderness: A History of the United Church
Mission Hospitals. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2004. [M. Wayne
Cunningham 3:1 (6)]
Anne Cameron, Family Resemblances. Madiera Park: Harbour Publishing,
2003. [Karen X. Tulchinsky 2:1 (5)]
Sandy Cameron, Being
True to Ourselves: Downtown Eastside Poems of Resistance. Vancouver:
Swancam, 2004. [Marsha Drake 3:1 (7)]
Anna Camilleri, I Am A Red Dress. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
[J.C. Sutcliffe 3:1 (3)]
Edward J. Chamberlin, If This Is Your Land Where Are Your Stories?
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. [M. Wayne Cunningham 1:2 (3)]
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival? Americaâs Question for Global
Dominance (The American Empire Project). New York: Metropolitan Books,
2004. [Richard Brittain 2:5 (3)]
Wayston Choy, All That Matters. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Joe
Wiebe 2:6 (3)]
Marcello Di Cintio, Harmattan, Wind Across West Africa. Toronto:
Insomniac Press, 2002. [Heather Neale 1:1 (2)]
Lincoln Clarkes, Heroines: Photographs. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2003.
[Michael Barnholden 1:1 (1/8)]
Lynn Coady, Saints of Big Harbour. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2003.
[Richard Brittain 3:2 (7)]
Anne Coleman, Iâll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers.
Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 3:2 (6)]
Don Coles, Doctor Bloomâs Story. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2004. [M.
Wayne Cunningham 2:4 (4)]
Wayde Compton, Performance
Bond. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Reg Johanson 3:3 (1)]
Tom Cone, True Mummy.
Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004. [Andrew Klobucar 2:4 (2)]
Ivan E. Coyote, One Man's Trash. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002.
[Tom Sandborn 1:2 (6)]
David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, Vancouver. Toronto: Harper Flamingo
Canada, 2003. [Heather Neale 1:1 (2)]
Peter Culley, Hammertown. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Lisa
Robertson 2:4 (8); Christopher Brayshaw 2:5 (2)]
Frank Davey, Back to the War. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. [Zachariah
Wells 3:3 (8); James Ross 3:3 (8)]
Barry Dempster, The Words Wanting Out: Poems Selected and New. Roberts
Creek: Nightwood Editions, 2003. [Zachariah Wells 2:3 (2)]
Jeff Derksen, Transnational Muscle Cars. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003.
[Brian Kim Stefans 1:1 (4); Donato Mancini 3:2 (4-5)]
Nate Dorward, ed., Removed For Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth.
The Gig [Toronto] 13/14 (2003). [Victor Coleman 2:4 (7)]
Rejean Ducharme, Go Figure. Translated by Will Browning. Vancouver:
Talonbooks, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:4 (2)]
Mark Edge, Red Line Blue Line Bottom Line: How Push Came to Shove Between the
National Hockey League and its Players. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2004.
[Michael Barnholden 2:6 (4)]
Laura Endridge, Tro-tros and Potholes: West Africa: Solo. Vancouver:
Four Corners Publishing, 2003. [James Ross 2:1 (2)]
Derek Fairbridge, ed., The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from
Canadaâs Best Writers. Introduced by Douglas Coupland. Vancouver:
Raincoast, 2005. [Cynthia Flood 3:4 (8)]
M.A.C. Farrant, Darwin Alone in the Universe. Vancouver: Talonbooks,
2003. [Jean Smith 2:1 (4)]
M.A.C. Farrant, My Turquoise Years: A Memoir. Vancouver: Greystone
Books, 2004. [Nancy Newman 2:4 (4)]
Brian Fawcett, Virtual Clearcut: or, The Way Things Are in My Hometown.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2003. [Ryan Knighton 1:1 (6)]
Brian Fawcett, Local Matters: In Defense of Dooney's Cafe and Other
Non-Globalized People, Places and Ideas. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003.
[Flick Harrison 2:3 (2)]
George Featherling, Singer, An Elegy. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2004.
[Michael Barnholden 3:1 (6)]
Rob Ferguson, The Devil and the Disappearing Sea. Vancouver: Raincoast
Books, 2003. [Viola Funk 2:1 (7)]
Daniel Francies, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:4 (1)]
Marvin Francis, city treaty, a long poem. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press,
2002. [Marie Annharte Baker 1:1 (3)]
Steven Galloway, Ascension. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. [M. Wayne
Cunningham 2:1 (3)]
W.F. Garrett-Petts, The Small Cities Book: On the Future of Small Cities.
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005. [Michael Barnholden 3:3 (6)]
Bill Gaston, Sointula. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe
3:2 (1)]
Diana George and Charles
Tonderai Mudede, eds., Politics Without The State: Joy, Terror and
Depression in the Global Corporate Order. Seattle: Seattle Research
Institute, 2002. [Andrew Klobucar 2:1 (8)]
Shree Ghatage, Brahma's Dream. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Heather
Neale 2:6 (4)]
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition. Toronto: Penguin Putnam, 2003. [Joe
Wiebe 1:2 (5)]
Hiromi Goto, Hopeful Monsters. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
[Jean Smith 2:3 (6)]
Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic. Toronto: Harper Flamingo Canada, 2003.
[Kathryn Ogg 2:2 (5)]
Sherrill Grace and Albert-Reiner Glaap, eds., Performing National
Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2003. [Mia Parry 2:1 (6)]
Jessica Grant, Making Light of Tragedy. Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine's
Quill, 2004. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:6 (7)]
Paul Grant and Laurie Dickson, Stanley Park Companion. Vancouver:
Bluefield Books, 2003. [Lenore Herb 2:2 (7)]
Taras Grescoe, The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists.
Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2003. [Viola Funk 1:2 (3)]
Stephen Guppy, The Fire Thief. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004.
[Michael Harris 2:4 (3)]
Mark Haddon, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Toronto:
Doubleday Canada, 2002. [Jane Dyson 1:2 (3)]
Kenneth J. Harvey, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe. Vancouver:
Raincoast Books, 2003. [Darlene Shatford 2:1 (6)]
Donald J. Hauka, McGowan's War. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2003. [Tom
Sandborn 2:1 (3)]
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why The Culture Can't Be Jammed.
Toronto: Harper Collins, 2004. [Richard Brittain 3:3 (3)]
Richard Heinberg, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial
Societies. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2003. [Monte Paulsen
2:1 (3)]
Matt Hern, Field Day: Getting Society Out of School. Vancouver: New Star
Books, 2003. [Crawford Killian 2:1 (1)]
Robert Hilles, A Gradual Rain. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004. [Joe
Wiebe 2:4 (3)]
Barbara Hodgson, Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon. Vancouver:
Greystone Books, 1999. [Michael Barnholden 1:1 (7)]
Margaret Hollingsworth, Be Quiet. Vancouver: Blue Lake Books, 2003. [Mia
Perry 2:3 (5)]
Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds., So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial
Science Fiction & Fantasy. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005. [Flick
Harrison 3:2 (2-3)]
Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey.
Photographs by Robert Keziere. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. [Tom
Sandborn 2:6 (1)]
Crystal Hurdle, After Ted and Sylvia: Poems. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press,
2003. [Carellin Brooks 2:2 (1)]
Clint Hutzulak, The Beautiful Dead End. Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2001.
[Michael Barnholden 2:2 (7)]
George K. Illsley, Random Acts of Hatred. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,
2003. [David Watmough 1:2 (6)]
Anosh Irani, The Cripple and His Talismans. Vancouver: Raincoast Books,
2003. [J.C. Sutcliffe 2:4 (5)]
Ray Johnson, The Paper Snake. New York: Something Else Press, 1964.
[Donato Mancini 2:2 (5)]
Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 2004. [Chris
Turnbull 3:1 (2)]
Adeena Karasick, The House That Hijack Built. Vancouver: Talonbooks,
2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:5 (7)]
Joe Keithly, I, Shithead: A Life in Punk. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press,
2003. [Michael Turner 2:1 (5)]
Keith Keller, Wildfire Wars: Frontline Stories of BC's Worst Forest Fires.
Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2003. [Diana Skoglund 1:2 (1)]
Kaie Kellough, Lettricity. Montréal: Cumulus Press, 2004. [Wayde
Compton 3:1 (3)]
Yvonne Mearns Klan, The Old Red Shirt. Transmontanus 12. Vancouver: New
Star Books, 2004. [M. Wayne Cunningham 2:5 (6)]
Mark Laba, Dummy Spit. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2002. [Donato Mancini
2:3 (4)]
Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, Sybil Unrest. Burnaby: West Coast Line Books,
2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:2 (4)]
Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, eds., Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets.
Roberts Creek: Nightwood Editions, 2004. [Reg Johanson 3:1 (4)]
Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing For You. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
2003. [Joe Wiebe 2:3 (2)]
Bob Mackin, The Unofficial Guide to Baseball's Most Unusual Records.
Vancouver: Greystone, 2004. [Michael Barnholden 2:6 (3)]
Ray MacSkimming, The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers. Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 2003. [Victor Coleman 2:2 (6)]
Guy Maddin, From the Atelier Tover: Selected Writings. Toronto: Coach
House Books, 2003. [Victor Coleman 2:3 (3)]
Gabor Mate, MD, When the Body Says No: