Articles

Orwell’s Nightmare: 75 Years Later

By Stan Persky | February 7, 2014

Seventy-five years after its publication, Stan Persky takes note of George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia,” and its anniversary.

Toronto after the Ice Storm: A Personal Report

By Brian Fawcett | December 31, 2013

Brian Fawcett, in the cold after Toronto’s ice storm, has some things to say, and some questions for the City of Toronto and its electrical ultility.

What the duck?! Redux

By Stan Persky | December 21, 2013

Stan Persky presses the TV power button to discover some dead ducks.

Pages I Have Trouble With 3: Grappa

By George Bowering | October 5, 2013

George Bowering finds a pronoun in the wrong seat on an airliner, placed there by a writer who should know better.

David Gilmour Steps in it. Or Maybe Everyone Else Has.

By Brian Fawcett | September 26, 2013

Brian Fawcett doesn’t find David Gilmour’s disinterest in teaching women writers criminal. What bothers him is the hysterical response to it.

Ice Cream

By Norbert Ruebsaat | September 1, 2013

Norbert Ruebsaat on the boy who didn’t like ice cream.

The New American Poetry Revisited — Again

By Michael Boughn | August 20, 2013

Michael Boughn has been teaching “The New American Poetry” in recent years, and thinking about what it means.

Putting the CON into Consultation

By A. Resident | August 12, 2013

A. Resident posts a warning to those readers who might be thinking of getting involved in a public consultation with urban planners and developers.

A “gay-friendly pope”? Let’s hope.

By Daniel Gawthrop | July 31, 2013

Dan Gawthrop is keeping an eye on Pope Francis.

Poet and Son: Hartley Coleridge (6)

By John Harris | July 17, 2013

John Harris concludes his extended essay about Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge