jack the ripper

The year’s best titles, according to our books editor, range from Margaret Atwood’s latest to a study of Jack the Ripper’s victims

Too bad its poorest inhabitants have so far been shut out of competition

I’ve been trying to put the “Edmonton bureau” into more civilized order the last few weeks. This mostly involves decreasing the total entropy of my books and restoring them to shelves and boxes, which inevitably leads to the discovery of a couple dozen books I never finished and many others I’d like to read again. This in turn, tends to delay the tidying. Among the books I’ve unearthed and re-read is From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel about Jack the Ripper.