| COLUMN |
DATE |
| Showing off the life of the mind;
Denis
Dutton sketches out our innate artistry |
30 December 2008 |
| Ponzi would have been
proud |
27 December 2008 |
| Father Christmas; How
Charles
Dickens almost single-handedly created our sense of what makes the
season |
23 December 2008 |
| Because I'm a Kennedy.
That's
why |
20 December 2008 |
| First he swashed, then he
buckled; A
new book recalls Douglas Fairbanks's glory days before the silent-film star
fell victim to cinema's sound revolution |
16 December 2008 |
| Can he rise above his own
party? |
13 December 2008 |
| Human history at face
value; New
Renaissance portrait exhibit gives inspiration |
9 December 2008 |
| The normalization of
separatism |
6 December 2008 |
| Who's ever heard Virginia
Woolf?; New
compilation highlights dead British writers |
2 December 2008 |
| A great era for
America-haters |
29 November 2008 |
| A lost art oasis in Northern
Ontario; Joe Hirshhorn's vision for a town that never was |
25 November 2008 |
| The rule of 10,000; ...and
other
secrets of success from Malcolm Gladwell |
22 November 2008 |
| They played us!; How pulp fiction
hacks
invented noir and changed popular culture |
18 November 2008 |
| Over the top; MSNBC is
liberal and
Fox is conservative--if you define liberal and conservative as differing
versions of bigoted ranting from doggedly established positions |
15 November 2008 |
| If you're happy, you don't know
it; Mike
Leigh on the study of hedonics |
11 November 2008 |
| Forget Citizen Kane |
8 November 2008 |
| Frank'd!; With His AGO
Revamp, Gehry
Proves That He Is Both Architect And Artist |
8 November 2008 |
| A divide has been
crossed |
5 November 2008 |
| Love's labour not lost; Art
Spiegelman revisits his past in new Breakdowns |
4 November 2008 |
| The Hypocrisy Of
Government
Gambling; Government's addiction to gaming revenue is fueling the spread
of a destructive disease |
1 November 2008 |
| Out with the old; Don't like
what you
see? Time for rebranding! |
28 October 2008 |
| Making history, one page at a
time |
27 October 2008 |
| The rise of the basement
boys |
25 October 2008 |
| A love less ordinary; The secret
affairs
of a Canadian diplomat yield an unexpected poetry |
21 October 2008 |
| Ralston Saul's imagined
country |
18 October 2008 |
| Poisoned by his own lack of
passion;
Harper has sounded more like a man seeking office than holding
it |
15 October 2008 |
| Special relativity; The Big
Bang
Theory is full of social silliness |
14 October 2008 |
| A tyrant's private
library |
11 October 2008 |
| Look on these works, ye
mighty; But
don't despair, for archaeology still yields riches |
7 October 2008 |
| The weirdest country in
Europe |
4 October 2008 |
| Little art scene on the
prairie;
Art journal Border Crossings finally looks at its Winnipeg home |
16 September 2008 |
| Memories gone
Judenrein |
13 September 2008 |
| Always settle scores at noon;
And
other lessons learned at the movies |
9 September 2008 |
| Election to
nowhere |
6 September 2008 |
| An angry artist's 'gorilla within';
The
victims in John Bratby's life included the painter himself |
2 September 2008 |
| Labour movement recedes into
history;
Mediocrities soon take over |
30 August 2008 |
| The tyranny of
stereotype |
30 August 2008 |
| The tragic tale of Caesar; A
rewriting of
history can make any man noble |
26 August 2008 |
| The meaning of a
gesture |
23 August 2008 |
| Going back for Baltimore; Now
that the
final season of The Wire is on DVD, the rest of us can marvel at its
complexity |
19 August 2008 |
| The private lives of
exhibitionists |
16 August 2008 |
| Facial Frontier; The human face
can reveal
much about a person-- whether they like it or not |
12 August 2008 |
| War Without End |
9 August 2008 |
| Once, the bravest man in
the
world |
5 August 2008 |
| The perils of
boredom; |
5 August 2008 |
| It's all Greek to
everyone |
2 August 2008 |
| He's as Gonzo as we want
him to be;
Another gloss on Hunter S. Thompson's life |
29 July 2008 |
| Not quite the end of
history |
26 July 2008 |
| Slippery slopes of satiric
squibs;
Figuring what's funny can be a tough business |
22 July 2008 |
| Establishment man |
19 July 2008 |
| Pauline Kael & trash cinema; Will
Smith's
films are the endgame of a critic's take on Bonnie and Clyde |
15 July 2008 |
| China's memory keeper |
12 July 2008 |
| Eureka! on the printed page;
Richard
Dawkins' editorship brings a brilliant Oxford anthology to life |
8 July 2008 |
| Islam's original feminist; A
century after
his death, Qasim Amin remains a man ahead of his time |
5 July 2008 |
| Hook, line & sinker;
Pre-Internet, most of us seldom met a con man. In the age of e-mail, we
hear from them several times a day |
17 May 2008 |
| One tough egg in a soft-boiled
world; Howard Engel's Benny is back, and so is the author |
13 May 2008 |
| The Jewish state, by the
numbers |
10 May 2008 |
| A family tree of despair;
Writer's history of her parents' Nazism is chilling |
6 May 2008 |
| This is why we hate
unions |
3 May 2008 |
| Bitter Fred turned red; Lazy
communism and E.P. Taylor's little brother |
29 April 2008 |
| In their own fanatical
words |
26 April 2008 |
| Art in an age of egoists; Even
drugged-out failures can get a retrospective |
22 April 2008 |
| The martyrdom of
Stéphane Dion |
19 April 2008 |
| Rising from the inkwell of
history; Palladio inspired 500 years of careful imitation |
15 April 2008 |
| Biting the (invisible) hand that
feeds us |
12 April 2008 |
| Bassist's pictures are worth
1,000 gigs; Milt Hinton's other art form tells a story of American
music |
8 April 2008 |
| Thinking about
fundamentalism |
5 April 2008 |
| Making it while they're faking it;
Why unnecessary lies are the most fascinating kind |
1 April 2008 |
| 1968 - The Bogus
Revolution |
29 March 2008 |
| What divides us makes us
Hegel; Book re-examines the philosophical basis of a nation |
25 March 2008 |
| Root against the home
team |
22 March 2008 |
| They don't get much cooler;
Why Obama is the perfect McLuhan proxy |
18 March 2008 |
| What happened to the
revolution?; Vietnam is getting rich. For Tom Hayden and other 1960s-era
Marxists, that's bad news |
15 March 2008 |
| A one-man anthology of
sin |
13 March 2008 |
| Darwin Dumbed Down; The
Royal Ontario Museum's new exhibition does a disservice to the man and
his work |
11 March 2008 |
| Full-throated partisanship from
a demi-intellectual |
8 March 2008 |
| Life lessons from a turtle; What
Aesop's fables teach us about ourselves |
4 March 2008 |
| The dictatorship myth;
Mussolini never actually did make the trains run on time. Nor did the
Taliban provide Afghanistan with anything approaching stability or
security |
1 March 2008 |
| Best in the West; The
Englishman's Boy is an excellent Canadian novel that has now become an
excellent TV drama |
26 February 2008 |
| Ms. doesn't disappoint the
left |
23 February 2008 |
| The revolution will not be
criticized; Cuba's current regime gets a free ride in Montreal art
exhibition |
19 February 2008 |
| Preaching the dogma of
dependency |
16 February 2008 |
| Scholar was a Group of One;
Robert Stacey's love of Canadian art was unique |
12 February 2008 |
| Return To The Victory Burlesk;
Recalling the day Justa Dream's pasty fell off |
11 February 2008 |
| The art of avoidance |
9 February 2008 |
| Shock and flaws; Will ECT therapy
ever recover from its treatment by Hollywood? |
5 February 2008 |
| A portrait of globalization; A
brilliant new book traces the 17th-century origins of our modern economy
through the brushstrokes of Johannes Vermeer |
2 February 2008 |
| The best friend the Canadian
short story ever had |
29 January 2008 |
| Artful Codgers; How a
high-school dropout and his elderly parents fooled the world |
29 January 2008 |
| The Democrats'
Trudeau? |
26 January 2008 |
| The great big police procedural in
the sky; How should we grieve the death of a beloved TV
character? |
22 January 2008 |
| The myth of the Russian
soul; 'Reading Nabokov's books, Khrushcheva felt like a Nabokov
character: a Russian learning to be an individual' |
19 January 2008 |
| Tell me how you love me;
Passionate prose about a topic close to heart |
15 January 2008 |
| Different show, same message;
The Border retreads the CBC's favourite theme:We're better than
Americans |
12 January 2008 |
| The myth of sexy prunes;
Vance Packard and the evils of Freudian-based advertising |
8 January 2008 |
| Blacking out the past; Under the
reign of terror imposed by Soviet communists, ordinary citizens could trust
no one--even their own families |
5 January 2008 |
