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This year, Margaret Wente thinks professors aren’t working enough. The underworked Stan Persky checks it out.
Stan Persky tries to sort out the strands in the Ukrainian web.
Dan Gawthrop on the future of Myanmar, and its internationally renowned political figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, “The Lady.”
It’s Oscar season. Dooney’s goes to the movies to see Paolo Sorrentino’s “Great Beauty.”
Seventy-five years after its publication, Stan Persky takes note of George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia,” and its anniversary.
It’s Oscar time. Stan Persky goes to the movies and sees Oscar Isaac in a grim folk song film by the Coen brothers.
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.
Stan Persky presses the TV power button to discover some dead ducks.
George Bowering finds a pronoun in the wrong seat on an airliner, placed there by a writer who should know better.
Brian Fawcett doesn’t find David Gilmour’s disinterest in teaching women writers criminal. What bothers him is the hysterical response to it.