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).
Paul Alexander
The latest installment of Stan Persky’s The Short Version: Paul Alexander.
Read MoreAfter Lorca
Stan Persky offers us the fourth part of his ongoing series. This one is about the poet Jack Spicer, and is titled, as is one of Spicer’s books, After Lorca
Read MoreTHE COLANDER
Stan Persky offers a tribute to the late Mordecai Richler by way of a review of Barney’s Version
Read MoreOf African Descent
The Third of Stan Persky’s serial we’re running under the working title of The Short Version,
Read MoreAdolescence
The second of our serialization of Stan Persky’s The Short Version. (The first can be found in the probe section of the archives).
Read MoreTHE STORYTELLER
Stan Persky reviews Larry McMurtry’s Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
Read MoreWORD ALERT:
Stan Persky kicks back to watch a boxing match and discovers some media-speak
Read MoreSHARPE READING
Stan Persky takes a hard look at the Supreme Court decision on the Robin Sharpe Child Pornography case.
Read MoreMean Spirited, Small-minded Bishops
Stan Persky defends the Governor-General against the Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops
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