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: Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Berlin terrorist attack. The here and there of it.
Brawl on the Beach: The Making of an Absurdist Masterpiece
How Albert Camus’s literary classic came into being, despite an absurd world and an absent divinity.
Mein Trumpf, or Through a Cracked Crystal Ball Darkly
Reading the far-right subculture.
In Madrid: Landscape with Ghosts
In Spain’s capital there are absent poets, the absence of government, and terrace cafes on a late summer afternoon
Toronto Pride Meets Black Lives Matter
We Canadians can probably live with it. But, can Facebook users?
Orlando: Notes on a Massacre
Reading Orlando. Grieving Orlando.
Mein Trumpf, Brexit, and Europe’s Rising Right: Letter from Berlin
Austrian elections, British referenda, and The Donald — we’re contemplating almost everything.
Twitter Storm Spatters Elderly Writers Talese and Trillin
Veteran writers Gay Talese and Calvin Trillin come under digital fire. The Old People’s Review of Books rushes to their defense.