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).
Bad Ideas
Vancouver writer Heather Pringle rummages through the Nazi archives to tell the chilling story of some of the Third Reich’s lethal ideas.
Edmund White’s Own Story
Cats have nine lives. Why can't we? A look at a (gay) "boy's own story."
The ABC’s of the World Cup
Our embedded sports reporter files a dispatch from the front-lines of the international soccer conflict.
Disappearances
Terry Glavin takes a long walk over hill and dale. The story he comes back with is a must-read.
Conquest for Dummies
How to invade, occupy, reconstruct and democratize a Middle Eastern country of your choice. Or, for want of a Plan B, Plan A was lost.
Blind Man’s Bluff
Vladimir: “I’m asking you if it came on you all of a sudden?”Pozzo: “I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune.” –Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The Hedge
A shaggy hedge story about urban gardening, in memory of Jane Jacobs.
Atheists in Foxholes
Given the hordes of religious fanatics who are currently burning flags, effigies, cars, other people’s houses of worship, and ultimately, each other, is it time for atheists to poke their heads out of their foxholes and announce that God doesn’t exist?
Letter to Berlin: The Best of All Possible Worse Worlds
Dear Old Europe: Canada had an election last month. Herewith, an explanation of the latest electoral doings in the New World. Immigration forms available at end of article.
Bareback Rider
Now playing: not-your-average John Wayne-Western.