Role Models and Readers

Alberto Manguel

 Agreeing and disagreeing with the pugnacious John Ruskin

Building Bohemia

Stephen Henighan

The recipe for bohemia includes lots of culture and no economy

Grey Matters

Mary Schendlinger

It all started with a zesty little book about getting old

Dante in Guantánamo

Alberto Manguel

When Dante tortures the sinners, Virgil says nothing

Hospital Reading

Alberto Manguel

What one needs for hospital reading is the literary equivalent of comfort food.

Latinocanadá

Stephen Henighan

The Latin American community in Canada is not strongly defined, though our contact with the Spanish-speaking world goes back to the country’s origins.

The Secret Market

Hal Niedzviecki

What happens when secrets become products, or entertainment?

The Colonized Investor

Stephen Henighan

The Daily Apocalypse

George Fetherling

Deliberate inaccuracy, bad writing, horizontalism—it’s all part of the newspaper wars

A Fairy Tale for Our Time

Alberto Manguel

As in the fairy tale about Clever Elsie, we have been called upon to bemoan a tragedy that has not yet taken place.