On the Night Table: Art DeFehr

CEO of Winnipeg-based Palliser Furniture

Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Saturday, Sep. 3, 2011

"This summer started with In Light of India by Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz, where he uses his Mexican perspective to look at the interplay of religion, race and politics in India in his erudite style. To change the pace but stay in Mexico, I read Irma Voth by Miriam Toews, where she shifts her search for dysfunctional Mennonite families from Steinbach to Mexico. Next was The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich, a pessimistic view of the future of America. Currently I am reading Tim Flannery's Here on Earth, a less than flattering perspective of the impact of Homo sapiens on the diversity of our planet."

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“This summer started with In Light of India by Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz, where he uses his Mexican perspective to look at the interplay of religion, race and politics in India in his erudite style. To change the pace but stay in Mexico, I read Irma Voth by Miriam Toews, where she shifts her search for dysfunctional Mennonite families from Steinbach to Mexico. Next was The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich, a pessimistic view of the future of America. Currently I am reading Tim Flannery’s Here on Earth, a less than flattering perspective of the impact of Homo sapiens on the diversity of our planet.”