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Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
Read MoreIt’s icy in Berlin. A good time to get a grip on Germany’s slippery past.
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreBrian Fawcett loses a cherished neighbour in downtown Toronto
Read MoreBrian Fawcett tries to reassert perspective in the face of the earthquake in Haiti.
Read MoreCaleb Powell reviews an about-to-be published and likely-to-be controversial book by American cultural analyst David Shields
Read More1971 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…
Read MoreA little night-music maestro… How J.S. Bach’s “Cello Suites” made it from obscurity to modern times.
Read MoreRick Salutin thinks we could do with a lot less book-reading.
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