Reviews

Biopics: I Say Epicky, You Say Opicky

By Stan Persky | January 29, 2005

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.

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Reading Philosophy (1): True Confessions

By Stan Persky | January 18, 2005

Bryan Magee is a philosopher who lets us in on what he’s thinking. Stan Persky finds it all pretty interesting.

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2004: Book of the Year

By Stan Persky | December 25, 2004

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.”

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Letter from Berlin: Lies for Life

By Stan Persky | December 15, 2004

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. 

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Sappho’s Gaps: a review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson

By Barry McKinnon | November 11, 2004

Barry McKinnon reviews Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho

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Kee Tseel: Living Silence

By Margaret Randall | October 19, 2004

Margaret Randall travels to a place of "living silence."

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Rideau Hall

By Brian Fawcett | October 18, 2004

Brian Fawcett stays overnight at the residence of Canada’s Governor General, and is very surprised by what he finds

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Angkor Wat

By Stan Persky | October 16, 2004

Where the middle of nowhere turns out to be the centre of everywhere. Tales of a timid time traveller.

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Mel Hurtig and the New Maginot Line

By Max Fawcett | October 4, 2004

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…

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Tinseltown, Vancouver, B.C.

By Brian Fawcett | August 31, 2004

Brian Fawcett, with some help from Trevor Boddy, offers a view of Vancouver’s most cynically concieved retail platform

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