Stan Persky

Stan Persky taught philosophy at Capilano University in N. Vancouver, B.C. He received the 2010 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. His most recent books are Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 (McGill-Queen's, 2011), Post-Communist Stories: About Cities, Politics, Desires (Cormorant, 2014), and Letter from Berlin: Essays 2015-2016 (Dooney's, 2017).

Letter from Berlin: The Twilight of the Gods

By Stan Persky / 2009 April 27
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Berlin goes to the polls to vote on religion versus ethics.

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Heroes

By Stan Persky / 2009 April 18
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Stan Persky reads an unforgettable novel about heroes.

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Letter from Berlin: Hope Springs… Momentarily

By Stan Persky / 2009 April 5
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In “Old Europe,” Obama stirs up hope… for the moment.

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Intimate Sources

By Stan Persky / 2009 March 31
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Stan Persky’s mini-memoir about Attila Richard Lukacs’s Polaroid studies.

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Indelible

By Stan Persky / 2009 March 25
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Stan Persky re-reads the first great American novel of the millennium.

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Exit Strategies

By Stan Persky / 2009 March 3
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Stan Persky considers literary endgames.

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A Poet and A City

By Stan Persky / 2009 February 2
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Stan Persky reads George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem, and thinks about “The darkness of the mind & the darkness of death, / & in between the bright day, bright city.”

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Boobies

By Stan Persky / 2009 January 26
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Stan Persky reads Canada’s 2008 novel of the year, and meets some odd birds.

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Haunted by a Spectre

By Stan Persky / 2009 January 22
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Stan Persky reads Paul Krugman’s new book about the collapse of capitalism, and sees a ghost.

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Books of the Year, 2008

By Stan Persky / 2008 December 19
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We’re making a list and checking it twice; so is everyone else.

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