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Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
It’s icy in Berlin. A good time to get a grip on Germany’s slippery past.
The Ontario mass media, with their experienced reporters all drinking Sangria at the Winter Olympics, have let loose their cub reporters on the Colonel Russell Williams case…
Brian Fawcett loses a cherished neighbour in downtown Toronto
Brian Fawcett tries to reassert perspective in the face of the earthquake in Haiti.
Caleb Powell reviews an about-to-be published and likely-to-be controversial book by American cultural analyst David Shields
1971 Jury: John Fowles, Saul Bellow, Lady Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee and John Gross. I assume we all know the first three (how did they get rid of Dame West?) Philip Toynbee was a British writer and journalist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon. He…
A little night-music maestro… How J.S. Bach’s “Cello Suites” made it from obscurity to modern times.
Rick Salutin thinks we could do with a lot less book-reading.