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).
How Dumb Can You Get?
The decline of reading, knowledge and democracy among the young.
Art that takes your breath away
Shot-countershot. The story of a director who disappeared into his films.
Of Memory and Monuments
A trip to hell, carrying plenty of historical baggage
Career Moves
A book about how a philosopher changed his mind.
Not for Everyone
Margaret Wente has a bright idea about who should and shouldn’t go to university.
What Have We Learned? What Have We Forgotten?
A reappraisal of "the years the locusts ate."
Letter from Berlin: Fahrenheit 451 Revisited
"Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings." –Heinrich Heine
Letter from Berlin: “We are now beginning our descent”
United we fly; divided, we argue about airports.
…and Found
A search that not only turns up the long-lost dead, but also finds out how to tell a story
Can You Read This? Don’t You Wish You Couldn’t?
A new book argues that America's state of mind is irrational, anti-intellectual and just plain ignorant.