| COLUMN |
DATE |
| William Safire has defied his
critics |
December 31, 2004 |
| 2004: Voters made their
beds |
December 31, 2004 |
| Tell us another one:
Prognosticators are an
endless source of
innocent amusement |
December 28, 2004 |
| Boring is natural for Paul
Martin |
December 24, 2004 |
| He made the good book better:
How Northrop Frye
examined
the Bible without excess piety |
December 21, 2004 |
| This was not just another
British farce |
December 18, 2004 |
| How liberalism became a
dirty word |
December 11, 2004 |
| Myth and Kinsey: His image as
pure scientist was
no more
than a self-serving illusion |
December 7, 2004 |
| Striking journalistic gold, again
and
again |
December 4, 2004 |
| Japan is his oyster: Decades in
Tokyo made Donald
Richie
the writer he is today |
November 30, 2004 |
| Leftists have sided with radical
Islam |
November 27, 2004 |
| Architect of his own great
rise: Daniel
Libeskind's chatty
memoir details frustrations and triumphs |
November 23, 2004 |
| It was Germany's Third
Reich |
November 20, 2004 |
| Great lyricist, mean drunk:
Johnny Mercer's tangled
story is
still being told |
November 16, 2004 |
| Written in haste, edited in
panic |
November 13, 2004 |
| Now that's rich: Jewison puts
himself 'on the side
of the
working stiff' |
November 9, 2004 |
| Simplicity over
sophistication |
November 6, 2004 |
| Unwinding the Da Vinci code:
What has kept the
CBC's
crime drama so good for so long |
November 2, 2004 |
| John Kerry's post-modern
patron |
October 30, 2004 |
| The con men of Liebling: New
book reprises
journalist's
favourite stories of rogues and flim-flam artists |
October 26, 2004 |
| A paean to Pablum and
peacekeeping |
October 23, 2004 |
| Amos Oz's nocturnal
Israel |
October 16, 2004 |
| There's no place like this
home: John Massey turns
photo-chicanery into art form |
October 12, 2004 |
| Entrenching human
misery |
October 9, 2004 |
| Praise unworthy: Critics create
bloated reputations
by pouring
on the adulation |
October 5, 2004 |
| Festival honours medium
messiah: Marshall
McLuhan's
message lives on |
October 2, 2004 |
| A genteel display of
confidence |
October 2, 2004 |
| There are too second acts: Philip
Roth proves F. Scott
Fitzgerald's maxim wrong |
September 28, 2004 |
| Too much politeness, too
little
candour |
September 25, 2004 |
| Leonard Cohen at 70: He's a
bohemian with the
courtly
manners of a gentleman on day parole from the 18th century, but he's also
a
provocateur |
September 21, 2004 |
| How Vietnam became the new
Iraq |
September 18, 2004 |
| Wisdom in a nutshell?:
Collected proverbs don't
treat women
kindly |
September 14, 2004 |
| Medicare is not carved in
stone |
September 11, 2004 |
| A rare glimpse at Canadian
Stalinism |
September 11, 2004 |
| The finest whiner:
Screenwriter Frederic Raphael's
journals
are a study in disillusionment |
September 7, 2004 |
| Everything is sacred: In
martial-arts films such as
Hero, ritual
finds its place again |
August 31, 2004 |
| A political convention that
mattered |
August 28, 2004 |
| From pen to paper: A famous
killer's letter to The
Times
Literary Supplement is causing quite a stir |
August 24, 2004 |
| Milosz did not see himself as a
prophet |
August 21, 2004 |
| Her perfect bombshell: Author
Anita Loos' Gentlemen
Prefer
Blondes was a brunette's revenge |
August 17, 2004 |
| The problem with Jane
Doe |
August 14, 2004 |
| More than a dash of
Europe: Soulpepper
expertly brings the
Continent's great plays to Canada |
August 10, 2004 |
| A bad idea, badly executed
|
August 7, 2004 |
| How the Jews defined
America: Broadway's
golden years
helped make us all a little Hebrew |
August 3, 2004 |
| Fake patients in need of
real help |
July 31, 2004 |
| Preaching what he practised:
Baldwin got his start
with the
King James Bible, but his voice was his own |
July 27, 2004 |
| What does it mean to be a
'liberal'? |
July 24, 2004 |
| Is the ballot box now
passe? |
July 17, 2004 |
| The problem with leniency:
Reviewers need to
take a stand
and save the praise for the truly deserving |
July 13, 2004 |
| Tracing the origins of
Kabbalah Chic
|
July 10, 2004 |
| Sitting in God's chair:
Immortalized in On the
Road, George
Shearing bebops to own tune |
July 6, 2004 |
| AA's secret formula -- kinship in
suffering |
July 3, 2004 |
| A Law & Order unto
himself: Vincent
D'Onofrio has
turned Criminal Intent into his star vehicle |
June 29, 2004 |
| Power has made Liberals a
little crazy |
June 26, 2004 |
| How will his legacy read?:
Yiddish author Isaac
Bashevis
Singer remains a figure of controversy |
June 22, 2004 |
| Rehabilitating an ancient vice
|
June 19, 2004 |
| Canadian public life at its
worst |
June 18, 2004 |
| The fall of the mall: We are still
shopping, but the
citadels of
retail are fast becoming irrelevant |
June 15, 2004 |
| Whistler's lawsuit: A moment
on the lips, an
eternity in art
history |
June 14, 2004 |
| First impressions
count |
June 14, 2004 |
| A year of high passion, swiftly
extinguished |
June 12, 2004 |
| Inside the writer's studio: Diana
Fuss's book looks at
where the work gets done |
June 8, 2004 |
| The Kennedy myth - and why
we believed
it |
June 5, 2004 |
| The apprenticeship of
David Bezmozgis:
Author wants people
to visit Bathurst and Finch the way he made a pilgrimage to St. Urbain
Street |
June 1, 2004 |
| Repent! The age of contrition
is upon us
|
May 29, 2004 |
| Look back in laughter: Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis's
first
Angry Young Man book, turns 50 |
May 25, 2004 |
| A candidate of breathtaking
banality |
May 22, 2004 |
| Where you least expect them:
Contact festival puts
odd
photos in unusual places |
May 18, 2004 |
| Stalin: up close and personal
|
May 15, 2004 |
| Did he fall or did he jump?:
Dwight
Macdonald walked the
high wire of radical opinion |
May 11, 2004 |
| My love affair with
portraits |
May 8, 2004 |
| 'Objective' journalism?
There's no such
thing |
May 8, 2004 |
| Brothers with movie cameras:
Unremarkable
Russian film
tells remarkable stories |
May 4, 2004 |
| The book that Jack
wrote |
May 1, 2004 |
| A waving sky of
saffron |
April 27, 2004 |
| Dennis Miller says what most of
us
think |
April 24, 2004 |
| A life spent abroad: Mavis
Gallant's relationship
with Canada
was once one of mutual neglect |
April 20, 2004 |
| Churchill's lessons for the war
on
terror |
April 17, 2004 |
| For he has sinned: Like all
confessions, John Haslett
Cuff's
new film is part boast as well |
April 13, 2004 |
| Bush's new basis for American
idealism |
April 10, 2004 |
| Playing radio roulette: You just
never know where
CBC
Overnight will take you |
April 6, 2004 |
| You can't have equality of racial
outcomes |
April 3, 2004 |
| All of them oddballs: Angus
Calder sees the
diversity of life |
March 30, 2004 |
| Anti-Semitism can't be
explained or
cured |
March 27, 2004 |
| The life and Times of Howell
Raines |
March 26, 2004 |
| Roget's: Useful, primo, superb...:
So why the crusade
against
the lowly, lovely thesaurus? |
March 23, 2004 |
| Being busy is not an 'insidious
addiction' |
March 20, 2004 |
| The real Richler: The Last
Honest Man looks at the
scores and
how they were settled |
March 16, 2004 |
| Outsourcing makes
economic
sense |
March 13, 2004 |
| I want my BookTV: Canada has
proved a
round-the-clock
literary channel can be done well |
March 9, 2004 |
| The sound of moderate
Islam's
silence |
March 6, 2004 |
| Eternal optimists: The Royal
Ontario Museum's
exhibition of
Egyptian art reminds us of a civilization that believed you can take it with
you |
March 2, 2004 |
| Our windbag
Vice-Regal |
February 28, 2004 |
| Detective sob stories: Why
are today's fictional
sleuths so
depressed? |
February 24, 2004 |
| The Democrats' festival of
hypocrisy: From first to
last,
Howard Dean was insufferable |
February 21, 2004 |
| The man who built a mystery:
Son of master architect
Louis
Kahn documents the life, career of his father |
February 17, 2004 |
| It's bigger than a gang of
crooks |
February 14, 2004 |
| The source of Gould's genius?:
Great musician may
have
suffered from Asperger's |
February 10, 2004 |
| There is danger in
numbers |
February 7, 2004 |
| The thing becomes an idea:
The Rosetta Stone
represents the
expansion of knowledge |
February 3, 2004 |
| When Palestinians become
oppressors |
February 2, 2004 |
| Honderich was
Star-crossed |
January 31, 2004 |
| The proud display of
imagination: When it comes
to shaping
our world, designers know less is not more |
January 27, 2004 |
| I cannot turn away from
Michael
Jackson |
January 24, 2004 |
| New PM, same old Liberal
arrogance |
January 22, 2004 |
| The Vegas vision: Architects
have learned a lot from
this
garage sale of cultural history |
January 20, 2004 |
| The king of Bibles: The King
James is a monumental
achievement with a mysterious genesis |
January 13, 2004 |
| "Gentrification" |
January 10, 2004 |
| HA! A Self-Murder Mystery and the suicide
of Hubert Aquin |
January 6, 2004 |
| Communism's true believers won't
give up |
January 3, 2004 |
