Subject:  Serai's latest edition
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:18:38 -0800


Subject: Serai's latest edition


> The latest edition of Montreal Serai is out at a new domain name
> www.montrealserai.com
> The archived editions are available at the old site. Both are linked.
>
> 1. EDITORIAL * * * NATIONAL SHAME, NATIONAL CHASTITY AND SEQUESTERING THE
TRUTH
> Is our best print journalism following the example of television: the
> greatest happiness for the lowest common denominator?
>
>
> 2. NOAM CHOMSKY: ON HUMANISM AND MORALITY
> Chomsky argues for the existence of deep-seated mental constructs that
> generate universal morality, yet in this century alone, 180 of the world's
> 192 countries have been involved in war, resulting in over 120 million
> casualties. Does he square the circle?
>
> 3. THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER by Pieter Fourie
> Taking cue from V.S. Naipaul's anti Gandhian solutions for a more robust
> India, Fourie exhorts Africa to get into the 'I'm-for-me' mode.
>
> 4. THE ART OF LOUIS HUGHES
> In the tradition of artists who live on the edge, Hughes brings back
> pictures of "strange things done, under the midnight sun."
>
>
> 5. NO FRILLS FOR CINEPHILES
> Patty-Lynne Herlevi interviews JOSE LUIS CUERDA
> With the cold steel of a gun pressing against your temple, it's not a
given
> that you will say 'no' to evil, explains Jose Luis Cuerda, the director of
> the award-winning film, Butterfly
>
>
> STRAIGHT TALK with Cynthia Fuchs and Midnight Clear director, KEITH GORDON
> Gordon discusses his apprenticeship under Brian De Palma, and his
obsessive
> fascination with characters in moral quagmires.
>
>
> KADOSH: a film review by Abou Farman-farmaian
> Fundamentalists up against the Wailing Wall. Israeli director, Amos Gitai,
> dares to tell it like it 'ism'.
>
> 6. TWO POEMS by JULIE BRUCK
> Julie is an award-winning poet who enters the bloodstream like a loaded
needle.
>
> 7. THREE BOOK REVIEWS by Julian Samuel
> The good, the not quite bad and the ugly: White Teeth, by Zadie Smith,
When
> We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, Experience, by Martin Amis.
>
> 8. CROSSING THE BORDER by Yona Loyola-Nazareth
> Happiness is getting a gorgeous Goan girl, a life-time caste exemption,
and
> an all purpose viper vaccine.
>
> 9. DEPORTING FREE SPEECH by Amit Srivastava
> Amit says dammit. Montreal Serai says amen to Amit -- who came to Canada
to
> give a speech. Clam it, they said. Ram it, he said, and then . . .
>
> 10. PEARLS, RAIN, EGGS: by Barbara Lefcowitz
> When Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds discovers Barbara in the Barrio with
> pearls, rain and eggs, she'll be scrambling for the first stairway to
terra
> firma.
>
> 11. A SERIES OF DIMINISHING RETURNS BY Susan Dubrofsky
> How long is a bad day supposed to last in the 21st century? The erstwhile
> 'gong-ho' Susan D. thought she knew the answer.
>
> 12. 200l TRUE TALES by Maya Khankhoje
> When asked what he would save from his house burning down, Jean Cocteau
> replied: The Fire. Maya K. ventures into the 'heat of the night' in
> Jerusalem -- and finds a tale of two cities.
>
>
> 13. SAY IT AINT SO, BELLICOSE JOE by Robert J. Lewis
> Will we ever see the day when 2 countries at war suddenly opt for peace as
a
> result of being exposed to a great work of art? Lewis explores this
> possibility and comes to an unexpected conclusion.
>
>
>



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