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Heather Mallick
Canadian author
and journalist

Doris Lessing’s
2007 Nobel Speech 

In Defence of Books
I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in 1956, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.
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2010-02-05 The U.S. is a banana republic now
2010-01-21 The curse of the modern age
2009-11-27 Montreal Massacre reminds us why we need gun registry
2009-11-09 Once-polite Canadians spat in the streets for supremacy
2009-10-30 Disney's delusion? That babies are just too boneheaded
2009-09-27 Here comes the flood
2009-06-22 Technology won't kill newspapers
2009-06-15 Americans and their guns
2009-06-05 My wish list
2009-05-29 Humans really are just skin-deep
2009-05-22 Puddlebum and the happy window
2009-05-15 The truth will out
2009-04-17 Give up your rage
2009-04-09 What a sex
2009-03-30 Let Gorgeous George speak
2009-03-20 Satirists, the world's unacknowledged legislators
2009-03-06 What men these Tasering Mounties be
2009-02-27 Time to shrink the university
2009-02-13 2666 and all that, a novel for a world in collapse
2009-02-06 Email etiquette: there are rules, you know
2009-01-30 Decidedly unstimulated
2009-01-23 When books are like cats and own the home
2009-01-17 Don't fool me please, Barack Obama
2009-01-16 Mortimer rests his case
2009-01-09 What constitutes parenthood?
2008-12-31 The lure of sentimentality
2008-12-24 New Year's resolutions: how I suffer
2008-12-19 David Sedaris and the weirdness of everyday life
2008-12-12 Sexual innuendo went over my head
2008-12-06 The morality of adjourning Parliament
2008-11-28 Porn is in the air that we breathe
2008-11-21 Keep the lid on, don't flip it
2008-11-16 What would Barack Obama do?
2008-11-07 U.S. Votes: fashionably played costume drama
2008-11-03 Obamaland versus McCainworld: The Decision
2008-10-27 Life's a slice of demographic pie
2008-10-20 European travelogue has North American echoes
2008-10-10 Books to go broke by
2008-10-06 The Palin fallout
2008-09-26 Fat and food
2008-09-21 A depressing economy
2008-09-11 Dire predictions call for traditional approach
2008-09-07 A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
2008-08-31 Avert your eyes - I will watch for you
2008-08-21 The road to neo-con ruin
2008-08-14 When art gets up a Tory snoot
2008-08-07 Screw the '60s: It was a Mad Men's world
2008-07-31 Dim view of Beijing Games
2008-07-24 Internet alert: John McCain does not compute
2008-07-17 The Mosley trial: being whipped for history
 
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