| Subject |
Date |
| Game theory's master |
March 11, 2006 |
| Tom Hodgson's abstract objective: Portrait of the
late artist as
a young man who wanted to change how we saw |
March 7, 2006 |
| Creative conspiracies |
March 4, 2006 |
| Erudition, knavery & tupperware: A new book on
cunning
hails the attribute as our greatest means of self-preservation, a starting point for human ingenuity
and a very useful tool for selling plastic food containers |
February 28, 2006 |
| Democracy takes a hit |
February 25, 2006 |
| Keeping an eye on freaks and geeks: Digital
cable is a
welcome window on the outer limits of television |
February 21, 2006 |
| Blasphemy has set us free |
February 18, 2006 |
| Russia's wonderful legacy of corruption: Gogol's
classic The
Inspector General remains relevant after 170 years |
February 14, 2006 |
| Saving Muslims from Islamists |
February 11, 2006 |
| From the front lines of the absurd: Albert Camus'
war
reporting laid the groundwork for his later philosophy |
February 7, 2006 |
| You didn't hear it from me |
February 4, 2006 |
| Straying from the usual script: Screenwriters
are finally
becoming a valued commodity in Hollywood |
January 31, 2006 |
| Ottawa isn't kind to premiers |
January 28, 2006 |
| Spoiling the taste of Turkish delights: Orhan
Pamuk faces
persecution for speaking plainly about his homeland |
January 24, 2006 |
| Harper's new beginning: They must restore the
people's faith
in the government and create a new tone of civility |
January 24, 2006 |
| Look who's blundering now |
January 21, 2006 |
| When Canada sought its place in the world: NFB
memoir
recalls a country with a great global purpose |
January 17, 2006 |
| A nightmarish moment |
January 14, 2006 |
| His life was as noir as his films: Actor Peter Lorre
lived the turbulent plots of his movies |
January 10, 2006 |
| Blurring political categories |
January 7, 2006 |
| Not just a lover, but a writer: Casanova deserves
a better legacy than he has been given |
January 3, 2006 |
| Do not disturb |
December 31, 2005 |
| Coming down firmly on both sides: Steven
Spielberg's Munich refuses to be bound by the rigours of truth |
December 27, 2005 |
| City of light: Toronto is fervently remaking itself
into a vessel
of innovation & culture |
December 24, 2005 |
| Christmas confessions of an
unbeliever |
December 24, 2005 |
| ROM with a view: With the opening of its newest
galleries,
the Royal Ontario Museum hopes to shed some light on both its collections and its own
history |
December 20, 2005 |
| Canada's emotional necessity |
December 17, 2005 |
| Life through his eyes: Photo blogger Sam
Javanrouh marvels
in minutiae |
December 13, 2005 |
| 'Re-educating' Tibet |
December 10, 2005 |
| Creation myths of the fourth estate: Hollywood
finds
melodrama in journalistic integrity |
December 6, 2005 |
| One Scream, twice stolen: The artist behind the
painting has
his own chilling story |
November 29, 2005 |
| The frivolity of evil |
November 26, 2005 |
| The Deutsch: my kind of volk: A new Web service
brings the best of German ideas to auslander inboxes |
November 22, 2005 |
| Mark Steyn, opinionmonger |
November 19, 2005 |
| Anti-Americanism, bred in the bone
|
November 17, 2005 |
| In the shadow of greatness: Play depicts Welles,
Olivier
facing the terror of theatrical accomplishment |
November 15, 2005 |
| A torpedo in a three-piece suit |
November 11, 2005 |
| Not a day over 500: Hans Memling's portraits
make 1465 look
like yesterday |
November 8, 2005 |
| Is Maureen Dowd necessary? |
November 5, 2005 |
| No more boobs on the tube: The gumshoe has given way
to
PhDs and quirky, brooding geniuses |
November 1, 2005 |
| Hollywood's false martyrs |
October 29, 2005 |
| Memoirs of a gossipy egotist: From beyond the
grave, Nobel
Prize winner Elias Canetti smears reputations |
October 25, 2005 |
| The socialism of fools |
October 22, 2005 |
| So long, Saturday Night, for now: It has not
made money
since '48, but magazine has perfected Lazarus act |
October 21, 2005 |
| The original man of mystery: Sherlock
Holmes author returns
to popular literature |
October 18, 2005 |
| The two Harold Pinters |
October 17, 2005 |
| Rewriting history (literally) |
October 15, 2005 |
| 12 angry men and 13 whiny ones: A book of 25
essays shows
guys in 2005 love to complain |
October 11, 2005 |
| Why are aliens so boring? |
October 8, 2005 |
| The Great one: AGO's Catherine exhibition gives
a shout out
to vanity |
October 4, 2005 |
| Canada's urban gold rush |
October 1, 2005 |
| An obnoxious look at China |
October 1, 2005 |
| The truth about sex slavery |
September 28, 2005 |
| Sorry, case clothed: Russell Smith's style rulings are
the law
because he says so |
September 27, 2005 |
| The values battle |
September 24, 2005 |
| 50 years after Lolita |
September 20, 2005 |
| Stalin's grand delusion |
September 17, 2005 |
| Documenting a feat of monumental
destruction |
September 13, 2005 |
| Learning to bear the unbearable |
September 10, 2005 |
| Public tragedy, private pain: In a sea of powerful
images,
where do we find catharsis? |
September 6, 2005 |
| Where's the CBC vision? |
September 3, 2005 |
| A city built on mud and optimism: New
Orleans made its
mark on history long ago |
September 1, 2005 |
| The jagged edges of Broken Flowers: Deadpan
can only go so
far before it's dead boring |
August 30, 2005 |
| Ontarians will be eloquent victims |
August 27, 2005 |
| Bebop's hidden history revealed: New disc like
winning the
lottery without a ticket |
August 23, 2005 |
| From mass murder to barroom kitsch |
August 20, 2005 |
| Imperfect Molnar is better than none: Celebrating
Hungary's
most famous 'clever young scoundrel' |
August 16, 2005 |
| Multiculturalism's eloquent enemy |
August 15, 2005 |
| Academics are asking the wrong
questions |
August 13, 2005 |
| The Jung offenders: Psychoanalyst's descendants sully
his
reputation by trying to control it |
August 9, 2005 |
| Wahhabism chills the blood |
August 6, 2005 |
| It's all in the beginning: Oft-quoted - rarely in
context - great
opening lines in literature |
August 2, 2005 |
| Moderate Islam's awakening |
July 30, 2005 |
| All that is left behind: Thankfully, some of
Andy
Goldsworthy's work doesn't melt, decay or wash away |
July 26, 2005 |
| Libel tourism goes to London |
July 23, 2005 |
| The death wish of cinema: Who's to blame for
Hollywood's box-office blues? |
July 19, 2005 |
| Islamophobia isn't the problem |
July 16, 2005 |
| The science we're digging: It's a golden age
for archaeology |
July 12, 2005 |
| Tales he never told |
July 9, 2005 |
| Elmasry's fantasy outrage |
July 8, 2005 |
| Is Laurie the cure for what ails TV?: House's ornery
doctor
may be the best medicine for a tired medium |
July 5, 2005 |
| Origins of cottage country: Loved by a biographer --
and few
others |
July 2, 2005 |
| Seeing minimalists in a maximal space: An
innovative gallery
celebrates two years in upstate New York |
June 28, 2005 |
| Caravan's meltdown |
June 25, 2005 |
| A 'parody of talent': A new book posits that Saul
Steinberg
did for art what James Joyce did for literature |
June 21, 2005 |
| The miracle of human trust |
June 18, 2005 |
| The secret life of the octothorpe: No one really
knows how
the word for this familiar symbol came to exist -- which is what makes its story so
fascinating |
June 14, 2005 |
| For the glory of France |
June 11, 2005 |
| A return to form: The Best of Youth recalls
Italian cinema's
glory days |
June 7, 2005 |
| How the Auschwitz Trial failed |
June 4, 2005 |
| Keeping history in the family: A biographer's
worst enemies
are the subject's heirs |
May 31, 2005 |
| All the news fit to ... bury: The Times' blind eye to
the
Holocaust |
May 28, 2005 |
| Build a literary legacy for yourself: Smart aspiring
writers
have their archives ready |
May 24, 2005 |
| The party that can accommodate
everyone |
May 21, 2005 |
| Trying to find the real Lady Day: Those who try to
tell Billie
Holiday's story often discover an unknowable life |
May 17, 2005 |
| Canada's handout culture: Gay and not so proud:
Noriega of
the north |
May 14, 2005 |
| Stop the treadmill, I want to get off: Live
cable news has
become an art form in its extremes |
May 10, 2005 |
| Mau is less |
May 7, 2005 |
| Man of records: Freakonomics author's statistical
microscope
reveals a life less ordinary |
May 3, 2005 |
| Whatever it takes to win |
April 30, 2005 |
| Buying bliss for a buck or two: Dollar stores
have become a
welcome feature of our retail landscape |
April 26, 2005 |
| Questions the Prime Minister wouldn't
answer |
April 25, 2005 |
| Surprised by happiness: Why are the
middle-aged happier
than the young? |
April 23, 2005 |
| A vision? Yeah, it's around here
somewhere... |
April 20, 2005 |
| The life and lies of Charles Ponzi: New addition to
the
con-man canon suggests an honest man can't be grifted |
April 19, 2005 |
| The last amusing Frenchman |
April 16, 2005 |
| The mind of the self-mad man: Writer James Atlas
flaunts his
failure like a badge of honour |
April 12, 2005 |
| Preaching to the Guardian's converted |
April 9, 2005 |
| The great unread: Many have bought these books,
but has
anyone ever finished them? |
April 5, 2005 |
| The foxes dine out in Geneva |
April 2, 2005 |
| Ignorance's colourful bloom |
March 26, 2005 |
| The Georgia of good and evil: Miss Savannah
murder trial
reveals much about this Southern society |
March 22, 2005 |
| This President deserves credit |
March 19, 2005 |
| The triumph of The Gates: Christo's project had a
social
impact that was deeply felt |
March 8, 2005 |
| Pearson was a leader |
March 5, 2005 |
| Hey, aren't you that guy from that movie?:
Memorable,
awkward moments among the Slightly Known |
March 1, 2005 |
| Summers performs the loyalty dance |
February 26, 2005 |
| Stiff prose of an anxious era |
February 19, 2005 |
| Krazy Kat at last joins the kanon: Those who
decried comic
strips were on the wrong side of history |
February 15, 2005 |
| Seeing a cult through a child's eyes |
February 12, 2005 |
| The perfect end: Fiction and cinema's most
memorable finales
are inevitably surprising |
February 8, 2005 |
| Canada's Muslim refusenik |
February 5, 2005 |
| The house that built literature: The walls of a
famed Brooklyn
artists' residence are talking |
February 1, 2005 |
| An enemy of principles |
January 29, 2005 |
| Stars playing stars: To succeed, these performances
should go
beyond imitation |
January 25, 2005 |
| There's no right to know in China |
January 22, 2005 |
| Speech among history's best |
January 21, 2005 |
| Engaged to the horrors of war: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
brings the
trenches into full focus |
January 18, 2005 |
| Dan Rather got away with it again |
January 15, 2005 |
| The checkered career of the adjective:
Much-maligned part of
speech has a place in literature |
January 11, 2005 |
| Utopian ends, murderous means |
January 8, 2005 |
| A most unique criticism: Gary Giddins came to
jazz like a
sinner comes to Jesus |
January 4, 2005 |
| A key moment for the West |
January 3, 2005 |
| 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 |
| Two neighbours, growing apart |
December 27, 2003 |
| Here, you are what you eat: At the Mondragon,
the food comes with a little politics on the side |
December 23, 2003 |
| Mixing races, distilling hypocrisy |
December 20, 2003 |
| Romancing the Stone City: New York's superb Petra
exhibition reminds us we are living in one of the great ages of archeology |
December 16, 2003 |
| Imagine a campaign for world
democracy |
December 13, 2003 |
| Giddy over Montreal: Maisonneuve's
editorial buoyancy sets it apart from other new magazines |
December 9, 2003 |
| A cold warrior who knew how to hunt
bear |
December 6, 2003 |
| Suicide bombers aim at democracies |
December 6, 2003 |
| Hugh's world view: Literary critic Kenner saw a
lifelong partnership between humanities and science |
December 2, 2003 |
| Schadenfreude: one of life's guilty
pleasures |
November 29, 2003 |
| Duranty was Stalin's spin doctor |
November 25, 2003 |
| Keep Kofi away from the Internet |
November 22, 2003 |
| Reviving the old one-man spy game: War on
terrorism can't be fought with modern intelligence, historian writes |
November 18, 2003 |
| Flames grow hot but he stays cool: A tad late for
lunch, Black says, 'I had to stamp out some fires' |
November 18, 2003 |
| He is the very model of a modern Canadian
Liberal |
November 15, 2003 |
| Economic failure is the problem for most
Arabs |
November 15, 2003 |
| The seeds of prize writing: Alice Munro reveals
inspiration for her Giller-winning story |
November 11, 2003 |
| The end marred by betrayal, bitterness |
November 8, 2003 |
| Anne of Green Gables goes to court |
November 8, 2003 |
| Leaving one life behind: The Human Stain reveals the
courage and cruelty of self-transformation |
November 4, 2003 |
| Upwardly mobile phone jockey... or
'cyber-coolie'? |
November 1, 2003 |
| The private lives of spies: TV series MI-5 shows
operatives with domestic issues |
October 28, 2003 |
| Is Harris the hero conservatives need? |
October 25, 2003 |
| Godard in waiting: The filmmaker's early genius
needs only to be discovered by a new generation |
October 21, 2003 |
| The undefinable Dalton Camp |
October 18, 2003 |
| A Swede I have to read: Henning Mankell's crime
novels are my newest addiction |
October 14, 2003 |
| Education is the way to freedom |
October 11, 2003 |
| Words for a young century: Did we start speaking
differently in 2000 or is that my bad? |
October 7, 2003 |
| Whatever the soil, democracy will
sprout |
October 4, 2003 |
| A flawed but hopeful start: The Walrus has yet to
find its true self, but it took a while for The New Yorker, too |
September 30, 2003 |
| These days, no news can ever be good
news |
September 27, 2003 |
| The joke's on them: Why can't the protagonists of Lost
in
Translation see what's around them? |
September 23, 2003 |
| Bashing the U.S. makes us feel good all
over |
September 20, 2003 |
| The pen is nastier than the sword: The rogue reporter
has always suited Hollywood's needs |
September 16, 2003 |
| Art Deco's glamour: Art Deco borrowed from the
style of machines. The Deco artists loved surfaces that glittered, surfaces of glass, silver, steel,
lacquer, then chromium and Bakelite |
September 13, 2003 |
| Yasir Arafat and the politics of denial |
September 13, 2003 |
| This war did not begin in 2001: And it is not over just
because we haven't been hit again |
September 11, 2003 |
| Turning the absurd into an art form: Canada's
National Gallery has a history filled with bizarre decisions |
September 9, 2003 |
| Words have failed the Democrats |
September 6, 2003 |
| What about me?: Two authors under one roof
almost invariably creates professional envy |
September 2, 2003 |
| Canadian profs were braver before
tenure |
August 30, 2003 |
| Finally, it's chic to have the blues: Film based on life
of Harvey Pekar sparks new interest in mental health |
August 26, 2003 |
| Computer vandals are rotten little kids |
August 25, 2003 |
| Dimitrov's odd habit: keeping a diary |
August 23, 2003 |
| When hacks attract: Serious artists are drawn to tales
of mercenary scribes |
August 19, 2003 |
| Amidst the darkness,
self-congratulation |
August 18, 2003 |
| Simpson is Canada's hard-line
moderate |
August 16, 2003 |
| When dialogue is the best form of rebellion: Azar
Nafisi reveals the decadence of studying literature in Tehran |
August 12, 2003 |
| The liberal media: a study in groupthink |
August 9, 2003 |
| His own worst critic: Saviour of London theatre was
as self-destructive as he was brilliant |
August 5, 2003 |
| The man who industrialized comedy |
August 2, 2003 |
| Yakuza's decline is a crime: Japanese mafia has
seen better days, say oldsters |
July 29, 2003 |
| Idi Amin's crimes can't be counted |
July 26, 2003 |
| This lady spells trouble: Why the story of the evil
temptress is endlessly renewable |
July 22, 2003 |
| In praise of uni-tasking |
July 19, 2003 |
| They should know better: Humanities scholars
spend lots of time reading, so why can't they write? |
July 15, 2003 |
| 'Human rights' -- Saudi-style |
July 12, 2003 |
| This news anchor's timing is awful |
July 10, 2003 |
| Citizen of the Middle East: Writer Sami Michael
is Jewish, speaks Arabic and is both Iraqi and Israeli |
July 8, 2003 |
| In the Middle East, black means
white |
July 5, 2003 |
| Vigilance at the border and beyond |
July 4, 2003 |
| Hamas will now set the agenda |
July 3, 2003 |
| The road map reads like a necessary
lie |
June 28, 2003 |
| Art that demands and rewards: Stretch presents
conceptual and minimalist works that mean something |
June 24, 2003 |
| Marriage marks the end of a gay era |
June 21, 2003 |
| The true scam artists: Literary swindlers and their
bogus works are a source of endless fascination |
June 17, 2003 |
| Leave Ahenakew to his obscurity |
June 14, 2003 |
| Drama worth catching: Train 48, with its
storytelling on the fly, quickly captures the imagination |
June 10, 2003 |
| Something in a Canadian loves a loser |
June 7, 2003 |
| The Times pays for its hubris |
June 6, 2003 |
| Ernest goes to Toronto: Hemingway's almost
farcical affair with the city is fodder for a new comic novel |
June 3, 2003 |
| Whatever happened to the paperless
office? |
May 31, 2003 |
| From Russia, with stories: David Bezmozgis
captures the essence of immigrant life in his new fiction |
May 27, 2003 |
| The many breeds of liar |
May 24, 2003 |
| Ticked off by tick tock talk: We spend our time until
there's none left, then say we're working too hard |
May 20, 2003 |
| A partisan account of a shallow man |
May 17, 2003 |
| What is real country music?: It's often whatever
the latest musical generation says it is |
May 13, 2003 |
| New York Times was too good to be true |
May 13, 2003 |
| McCarthy's witch hunt made the world safe for
witches |
May 10, 2003 |
| Seeing our city anew: More than 160 exhibitions
can be found in the Contact festival, often in fascinating, out-of-the-way places |
May 10, 2003 |
| We suffer for their art: Avant-garde theatre can be
cruel to audiences, but it's also irresistible |
May 6, 2003 |
| A 'road map' drawn by fantasists |
May 3, 2003 |
| Born to be old: Nick Nolte played washed-up types in
his 30s, and he keeps getting bett |
April 29, 2003 |
| Garrison Keillor & the Rhode Island fire |
March 3, 2003 |
| Israel's best minds have lost faith
in the possibility of peace |
July 15, 2002 |
| Biographies offer a fresh view of
philosophers |
June 8, 2002 |
| Selkirk's Island & the real Robinson
Crusoe |
June 4, 2002 |
| Clashing ambitions: Jean Chrétien v. Paul
Martin |
June 3, 2002 |
| Terrorism is Arafat's medium |
June 1, 2002 |
| Metaphor as friend and enemy |
May 28, 2002 |
| For Kundera, Paris is less unbearable than
Prague |
May 25, 2002 |
| The surrealist art exhibition Dreaming with Open
Eyes |
May 21, 2002 |
| Left or right? Voters aren't easily pigeon-holed |
May 18, 2002 |
| Kieslowski's magnificent
Decalogue |
May 14, 2002 |
| Racism, censorship, and words that sting |
May 11, 2002 |
| Toronto's Contact photography festival |
May 9, 2002 |
| Male crying: now it's mandatory |
May 7, 2002 |
| An Imam dares to say what Islam should be |
May 4, 2002 |
| The UN should probe the suicide bomber
cult |
April 27, 2002 |
| Suffering those who say "suffer fools
gladly" |
April 23, 2002 |
| The Aspers, the editors, and the Globe 53 |
April 22, 2002 |
| Tragedy may have ended the gender battle |
April 20, 2002 |
| The Wall Street Journal redesigns
itself |
April 20, 2002 |
| Coast to Coast with Art Bell |
April 16, 2002 |
| David Brock, serial confessor |
April 13, 2002 |
| Trollope's The Way We Live
Now |
April 9, 2002 |
| Bin Laden's Islamism may be past its prime |
April 6, 2002 |
| The CBC miniseries Trudeau
|
April 2, 2002 |
| Billy Wilder's acerbic style made him a giant |
March 29, 2002 |
| Sept. 11: nobody knows who let it happen |
March 23, 2002 |
| The 2002 Canadian Alliance leadership
convention |
March 21, 2002 |
| The essential art of the book indexer |
March 19, 2002 |
| Canada must take sides in the Mideast |
March 16, 2002 |
| Plagiarism: do students learn it from their
teachers? |
March 9, 2002 |
| A wealth of Warhol at London's Tate Modern |
March 5, 2002 |
| Geezer talk about Golden Ages that never were |
February 19, 2002 |
| Our strange obsession with party politics |
February 16, 2002 |
| Ken Thomson's strange, lonely gallery in downtown
Toronto |
February 12, 2002 |
| In the Bedroom: a movie obsessed with
revenge |
February 9, 2002 |
| Can Garrison Keillor make Lutherans
funny? |
February 5, 2002 |
| Frantz Fanon: a poisonous thinker who refuses to
die |
February 2, 2002 |
| Gzowski: he had the courage to be scared |
January 25, 2002 |
| Arts & Letters Daily |
January 22, 2002 |
| Secularism and the archbishop |
January 19, 2002 |
| Pound, Popper, Beckett & Erikson: chance
encounters |
January 15, 2002 |
| "Junk English" |
January 12, 2002 |
| People on People: Oxford's
Biographical Quotations |
January 8, 2002 |
| Drawing the line between party gossip and
hate |
January 5, 2002 |
| The Winnipeg view of art in Border
Crossings |
December 31, 2001 |
| Why deny the obvious? West is best |
December 29, 2001 |
| A culture drowning in nostalgia |
December 24, 2001 |
| The Massey Report: did it send us the wrong
way? |
December 22, 2001 |
| Long-take classics from Welles, Scorsese & co |
December 18, 2001 |
| What's a national poet? Think of Milosz or
Amichai |
December 15, 2001 |
| Janet Malcolm and the essence of Chekhov |
December 11, 2001 |
| The perverse logic of suicide terrorism |
December 8, 2001 |
| In the age of museum building |
December 4, 2001 |
| Sheila Copps & the marketing of culture |
December 1, 2001 |
| The contentious career of Dwight
Macdonald |
November 27, 2001 |
| Chaos v. civilization? We're neutral |
November 24, 2001 |
| David Mamet's films |
November 20, 2001 |
| Unbearable niceness from the misanthropic V.S.
Naipaul |
November 17, 2001 |
| The agony and the ecstasy of a Giller juror |
November 13, 2001 |
| The strange popularity of the word
"closure" |
November 10, 2001 |
| The Battle for
God |
November 6, 2001 |
| Doug Collins & Allan Fotheringham |
November 3, 2001 |
| The diaries of Northrop Frye |
October 30, 2001 |
| Prince Hal camped on the Potomac |
October 27, 2001 |
| Stanley Spencer |
October 23, 2001 |
| New York's defiant life, and its memento mori |
October 20, 2001 |
| Rage, pathos and theological spin | October 13,
2001 |
| A war between civilizations | October 9,
2001 |
| From delusions to destruction | October 6,
2001 |
| William Weintraub |
October 2, 2001 |
| Don't buff the sharp edges off Islam |
September 29, 2001 |
| Robert Hunter |
September 25, 2001 |
| Toronto's waterfront |
September 22, 2001 |
| Anti-American cant a self-inflicted
wound |
September 22, 2001 |
| 'Pure rascality' has lost its shine |
September 18, 2001 |
| U.S. bashing no longer a game |
September 14, 2001 |
| The beginning of a dark new era |
September 12, 2001 |
| Gary Condit |
September 11, 2001 |
| Language censorship |
September 4, 2001 |
| Mendacious litigation |
August 28, 2001 |
| Yasukuni shrine |
August 21, 2001 |
| Dinosaur discoveries |
August 14, 2001 |
| Falstaff |
August 7, 2001 |
| The CRTC |
August 4, 2001 |
| William Smith |
July 31, 2001 |
| Planet of the Apes |
July 26, 2001 |
| Euphemisms |
July 24, 2001 |
| Objectivity in journalism |
July 23, 2001 |
| Truly legendary director Allen Smithee |
July 17, 2001 |
| Toronto City Hall houses China's lies |
July 12, 2001 |
| Mike Harris and the arts |
July 10, 2001 |
| Toronto's Olympic bid |
July 7, 2001 |
| Mordecai Richler: an obituary tribute |
July 4, 2001 |
| David Riesman's The Lonely
Crowd |
July 3, 2001 |
| Vietnam War resisters in Canada | June
26, 2001 |
| ideaCity, part 3 |
June 23, 2001 |
| ideaCity, part 2 |
June 22, 2001 |
| ideaCity, part 1 |
June 21, 2001 |
| Junichiro Koizumi and Japanese
individualism |
June 19, 2001 |
| OCAP and The Toronto Star |
June 18, 2001 |
| David Manning, imaginary film critic |
June 12, 2001 |
| The international success of Canadian
literature |
June 6, 2001 |
| The many names of @ |
June 5, 2001 |
| Canadian creativity |
May 30, 2001 |
| Charles Ritchie |
May 29, 2001 |
| The history of @ |
May 22, 2001 |
| Anthony van Dyck in Toronto |
May 15, 2001 |
| Fraudulent movie endings | May 8,
2001 |
| After Darwin |
May 3, 2001 |
| The Raymond Chandler papers |
May 1, 2001 |
| Lying in our time |
April 24, 2001 |
| My life as a highschool dropout |
April 18, 2001 |
| The Canadian Forum: alive or
dead? |
April 17, 2001 |
| Philosopher Ted Honderich tells his story |
April 10, 2001 |
| Edward Said |
April 3, 2001 |
| Chatelaine magazine | March
27, 2001 |
| The great Rahim Jaffer phone-in hoax |
March 21, 2001 |
| I.B.Singer's More Stories from My Father's
Court |
March 20, 2001 |
| Niall Ferguson, Part 3 | March 16,
2001 |
| Niall Ferguson, Part 2 | March 15,
2001 |
| Niall Ferguson, Part 1 | March 14,
2001 |
| Bruce Mau: a critical view of Life Style |
March 13, 2001 |
| Greg Curnoe |
March 6, 2001 |
| The bizarre poetry of random
encounters |
February 27, 2001 |
| DVDs |
February 20, 2001 |
| Sanxingdui: ancient Sichuan revealed |
February 13, 2001 |
| The history of common objects |
February 6, 2001 |
| David Irving: the libel trial re-examined |
January 30, 2001 |
| Dylan Thomas: The Collected
Letters |
January 27, 2001 |
| Marguerite Duras & Robert Brasillach |
January 23, 2001 |
| Canada: A People's History on CBC-TV |
January 16, 2001 |
| The Nobel Prize |
January 9, 2001 |
| V.S. Naipaul & Diana Athill | January 2,
2001 |
| Peter Robinson's Yorkshire thrillers |
December 26, 2000 |
| The Royal Ontario Museum's South Asian
Gallery |
December 19, 2000 |
| James Atlas & Saul Bellow | December
12, 2000 |
| The erotic art of Pompeii |
December 5, 2000 |
| Felipe Fernández-Armesto's
Civilizations |
November 21, 2000 |
| The language of Canadian politics |
November 14, 2000 |
| Björk & Lars von Trier | November 7,
2000 |
| A self-portrait by Alex Colville |
October 31, 2000 |
| How Bill Clinton changed political movies |
October 28, 2000 |
| Stanley Edgar Hyman & The Tangled
Bank |
October 24, 2000 |
| Bellow: the novelist as homespun philosopher |
October 23, 2000 |
| The Dreyfus case exhibited | October 17,
2000 |
| Lunch with Jan Wong |
October 14, 2000 |
| Typing: A Life in 26 Keys by Matt
Cohen |
October 10, 2000 |
| John Grierson and the documentary |
October 3, 2000 |
| The Trudeau record | September 29,
2000 |
| Bruce McCall |
September 26, 2000 |
| Elmore Leonard, the Shakespeare of
scam |
September 23, 2000 |
| William Ronald and John Meredith |
September 19, 2000 |
| The Nihilist Spasm Band |
September 12, 2000 |
| Claude Bissell |
September 5, 2000 |
| Ben Katchor |
August 29, 2000 |
| Toronto & Margaret Atwood | August 24,
2000 |
| Ben Webster |
August 22, 2000 |
| The Investigator & CBC radio
drama |
August 15, 2000 |
| Conrad Black & Canadian newspapers |
August 10, 2000 |
| Conceptual art |
August 8, 2000 |
| Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web |
August 1, 2000 |
| The turmoil over Chapters book chain | July
29, 2000 |
| Hegel: A Biography, by Terry Pinkard |
July 29, 2000 |
| The Concorde crash |
July 26, 2000 |
| Centenarian Studies | July 25,
2000 |
| Ed Mirvish, Toronto town planner | July
19, 2000 |
| Gossip & the NY intellectuals | July 18,
2000 |
| Two Lionel Trilling books | July 15,
2000 |
| Big Brother | July 11,
2000 |
| Philip Roth, The Gift of Fear, and
wife-killers |
July 4, 2000 |
| A new bookstore in midtown Toronto | July
1, 2000 |
| The future of McClelland & Stewart |
June 27, 2000 |
| Canadian Alliance: desperately seeking
mediocrity |
June 26, 2000 |
| Search engines |
June 20, 2000 |
| HerbertWhittaker | June 13,
2000 |
| TEDCity: technology, emotion, drama |
June 10, 2000 |
| Spirit of McLuhan looks over TEDCity |
June 8, 2000 |
| TEDCity conference mixes brains, ingenuity |
June 7, 2000 |
| Candidates for Alliance leadership decline to lead |
June 7, 2000 |
| Robert Alter & the story of King David |
June 6, 2000 |
| Eulogy for Sandra Gwyn | May 31,
2000 |
| Terry Southern |
May 30, 2000 |
| Marcus Aurelius and Commodus |
May 23, 2000 |
| Trust the art, not the artist | May 16,
2000 |
| Battlefield Earth | May
9, 2000 |
| The Concourse: Art Deco worth saving |
May 8, 2000 |
| Oxford and Cambridge dons | May 2,
2000 |
| Toronto culture's sad lack of leaders |
April 29, 2000 |
| The CIA's covert cultural sponsorship | April 25,
2000 |
| David Irving and Holocaust denial |
April 18, 2000 |
| Middle age |
April 11, 2000 |
| Urban and suburban real estate |
April 5, 2000 |
| Jim Jarmusch |
April 4, 2000 |
| The Nature of Economies by Jane
Jacobs |
March 28, 2000 |
| Charles Fort |
March 21, 2000 |
| Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic
Discovery |
March 14, 2000 |
| Study groups |
March 7, 2000 |
| John Steinbeck and Monterey, California |
February 29, 2000 |
| Richard Saul Wurman |
February 26, 2000 |
| TED (the Technology, Entertainment, Design
conference) |
February 25, 2000 |
| American Beauty |
February 22, 2000 |
| Lies on television |
February 18, 2000 |
| The West Wing | February
15, 2000 |
| Love Story |
February 14, 2000 |
| The First World War (response to commentary) |
February 14, 2000 |
| The First World War | February 8,
2000 |
| Urban legends |
February 1, 2000 |
| E-mail |
January 25, 2000 |
| The Black Book of Communism |
January 18, 2000 |
| NYPD Blue's Andy Sipowicz |
January 11, 2000 |
| Claude Jutra |
January 4, 2000 |
| Islam's lost empire |
December 28, 1999 |
| Pope John Paul II |
December 21, 1999 |
| Murray Frum's African art collection |
December 14, 1999 |
| Modris Eksteins |
December 7, 1999 |
