GUEST BLOG – Betty Ann Jordan on Looking at Photographs with Susan Sontag
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar […]
“Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate, and familiar […]
In scope, detail, and humanity, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is a classic of modem literature and continues to be a model
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known
The ghazal is my favourite poetic form—even though it’s less familiar than the sonnet or the haiku. A sonnet gives
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. I doubt there’s a better
After a Viennese music critic died, some of his friends made the rounds of local musicians to raise money for
While I cannot invite you to Newfoundland, I can invite you to do the next best thing — journey imaginatively
I love good books! I’m reading Anna Karenina right now, just for fun, but I recently finished two of Lee
A perfect prologue to Toronto Pursuits (July 14-19) is a weekend of world class theatre at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
My week at Classical Pursuits, Summer 2012 [editor’s note: due to a technical glitch, publication of this post was slightly