John Mills

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The Salvation of Yasch Siemens, Armin Wiebe. Turnstone, 1984Lady with Chains, Roch Carrier. Anansi, 1984The Bequest and Othe rSTories, Jerry Wexler. Vehicule, 1984

IN a recent article for this journal I wrote that in these days of galloping inflation, political instability, renewed threats of being nuked until our cold ashes glow in the dark, and massive and growing unemployment it seems that individual feelings of helplessness and insubstantiality are growing again to those proportions they reached in the late fifties.

Needles, William Deverell. McClelland and Stewart, 1980.

Had anybody asked me in my boyhood what was meant by the word "incest" I would have replied that i didn't exactly know, but whatever it was people burned it in churches.

Shotgun and Other Stories, Kent Thompson. New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1979.

Making Arrangements, Robert Harlow, McClelland and Stewart, 1978.

The School-Marm Tree, Howard O'Hagan. Talonbooks, 1977.

The Colours of War, Matt Cohen. McClelland and Stewart, 1977/

One of Sigmund Freud's better known fantasies postulates that little girls are in general afflicted with a state of mind called "penis envy."