Reviews
We send our chief popcorn cruncher to the movies. We want to know about Oscar, but he’s interested in The Glory That Was Greece.
Bryan Magee is a philosopher who lets us in on what he’s thinking. Stan Persky finds it all pretty interesting.
Stan Persky saw the so-so minds of his generation prowling the library stacks, picking the books of the year. He was “shocked and appalled.”
The commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last month was a pretty low-key affair. Stan Persky marks it by pondering the life of the German-Jewish author of a book about lies, survival, and storytelling.
Barry McKinnon reviews Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho
Margaret Randall travels to a place of "living silence."
Brian Fawcett stays overnight at the residence of Canada’s Governor General, and is very surprised by what he finds
Where the middle of nowhere turns out to be the centre of everywhere. Tales of a timid time traveller.
Max Fawcett reviews Mel Hurtig’s latest and most articulate polemic yet, Rushing to Armageddon, and sees in it a frightening glimpse of the past…
Brian Fawcett, with some help from Trevor Boddy, offers a view of Vancouver’s most cynically concieved retail platform