Wednesday, March 25, 2026
“The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.”– Joe Orton The playwright Joe Orton said these words during an interview published in… Read More
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
When I read last week that the executive of the students’ union at Memorial University wants to eliminate the campus radio station, I was taken straight back to the 1980s, when youthful politicians around Canada… Read More
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
“One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the ‘fantasy woman’ is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don’t think that… Read More
Monday, March 23, 2026
“I always find there’s a kind of serendipity to research. I’m a generalist, so one of the things that compels me to a story is addressing my own ignorance.”— David Grann I came across this… Read More
Sunday, March 22, 2026
It sounds benign, but a “correction” in the finance world is an unpleasant word indeed. And it’s right on our doorstep. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 444 points, landing at 45,577…. Read More
Sunday, March 22, 2026
One of the biggest stories in the U.K. this weekend is the death of Jenni Murray, who hosted the program Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 for more than three decades. Murray, 75, died March… Read More
Saturday, March 21, 2026
While you sleep, what’s in easy reach? It likely includes a lamp, something to read, your phone charger or maybe a glass of water. When RCMP searched a house in St. John’s recently, they found… Read More
Saturday, March 21, 2026
“That’s what books are, they’re containers for memory. They’re containers for the stories of the past. It’s an artifact that allows you to communicate with the past… I would imagine most writers have this sense… Read More
Friday, March 20, 2026
As rock managers went, Ian Faith always looked for the best way to frame a situation … and to take advantage of a poorly worded question, too. Ian Faith, of course, never existed. Played by… Read More
Friday, March 20, 2026
“Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.”— Simon Wiesenthal When he died in 2005 at the age of 96, Simon Wiesenthal was the world’s most famous Nazi hunter. A Holocaust survivor liberated from… Read More
Thursday, March 19, 2026
We went to see Man of the Year, the first-ever musical from the theatre company Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, on Wednesday evening. Dom has been playing in a band for at least 30 years, but… Read More
Thursday, March 19, 2026
“It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.”— A.S. Byatt Antonia Susan Byatt is best known… Read More
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
“One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or… Read More
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
A supermarket in suburban Toronto is one of the latest companies to pay a penalty for passing something off as Canadian that actually came from another country. Hawk-eyed shoppers have been scrutinizing food labels with… Read More
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
“Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.”— Deborah Tannen I’m… Read More