Cultural Mischief: A Practical Guide to Multiculturalism

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Cultural Mischief is neither mischievous nor practical. Nor, if its
subtitle is meant to be ironic, does it make an ironic point. The book
is largely a collection of silly scribblings—some prose, some
verse—about the author’s travels to conferences in Europe. In
“Globalized Sex,” for instance, Davey asks, “Who are more evil?
The Nazis who enjoyed sex with the Jews they were about to kill or the
Nazis who thought such sex disgusting?” One would think that people
who assent to genocide are all equally evil. There is little wit and a
lot of foolishness in this book.