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).
War and Peaceniks
Stan Persky tells us what he thinks about the WTC attacks, the war in Afghanistan, and the media’s response to both.
TEACHING IS EASY
Giddy about the end of term, our two trouble-making pedagogues offer a synopsis of how to get to class
TEACHING IS EASY
Knighton and Persky, trouble-making instructors at North Vancouver’s Capilano College, offer a synopsis of the first chapter of a book outlining their revolutionary pedagogic methods
ROLAND BARTHES
Stan Persky’s fourteenth entry in The Short Version is about the French writer, Roland Barthes
Ayutthaya
In Part Twelve of The Short Version, Stan Persky visits a Thai temple
BROWSING YOURSELF
Stan Persky begins a relevant argument with Internet Search Engines
Athens
Part Eleven of Stan Persky’s The Short Version is about the city of Athens.
"Arcadia" and "Art"
In these excerpts from The Short Version, Stan Persky examines "Arcadia" and "Art"
Mean Streets of Havana
Stan Persky on the mean streets of Havana
Apartheid
In Part eight of Stan Persky’s The Short Version he makes an unusually personal examination of Apartheid