GETTING TO KNOW YOU—Toronto Pursuits Leader Zoë Eisenman
Zoë comes to us from Chicago and is greatly looking forward to coming to Toronto for the first time to […]
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Savoir-Faire in the First Chapter of The Ambassadors
A guest blog post by Jonathan Rowan She waited for him in the garden . . . drawing on
The Mythic and Intimate in the American West
A guest blog post by Mark Cwik I’ve been reading quite a bit in the last few months about the
Exile and Identity in Pnin and The Book of Negroes
A guest post by Nella Cotrupi The themes of human displacement and migration dominate our media today. The dramatic photos
GUEST BLOG—Death in Venice: What Price Metamorphosis? by Tom Jones
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human
GUEST BLOG—Beauty’s Vivifying Force by Betty Ann Jordan
“Beauty comes to us, with no work of our own; then leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labour.” —
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GUEST BLOG—The Deliciously Dark World of Film Noir by David Schmitt
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
GUEST BLOG—Oedipus: An Identity Crisis by Zoë Eisenman
“Who are you?” – the Caterpillar, Alice in Wonderland “And you may ask yourself, Am I right? Or am I
GUEST BLOG—Five Reasons to Read Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend by Nancy Carr
Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, is one of his most complex and ambitious works. It includes everything you’d
GUEST BLOG—The Truth of Myth by Stuart Patterson
We’ve just passed into autumn. Depending on where you are, you’ll be seeing familiar changes sooner or later—shorter days, chillier
