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Reading Philosophy (1): True Confessions
by Stan Persky   
Bryan Magee is a philosopher who lets us in on what he's thinking. Stan Persky finds it all pretty interesting.
 
2004: Book of the Year
by Stan Persky   
Stan Persky saw the so-so minds of his generation prowling the library stacks, picking the books of the year. He was "shocked and appalled."
 
Letter from Berlin: Lies for Life
by Stan Persky   
The commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last month was a pretty low-key affair. Stan Persky marks it by pondering the life of the German-Jewish author of a book about lies, survival, and storytelling. 
 
Sappho's Gaps: a review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
by Barry Mckinnon   
Barry McKinnon reviews Anne Carson's translations of Sappho
 
Mel Hurtig and the New Maginot Line
by Max Fawcett   
Max Fawcett reviews Mel Hurtig's latest and most articulate polemic yet, Rushing to Armageddon, and sees in it a frightening glimpse of the past...
 
On Czeslaw Milosz
by Stan Persky   
The poet Czeslaw Milosz died last week in Krakow, Poland, at age 93. Stan Persky has a couple of thoughts.
 
Thriller-Dillers
by Stan Persky   
The Da Vinci Code has sold 10 million copies, spawned a minor industry of counter-books and websites, and Harrison Ford is suiting up for the Hollywood blockbuster version. Stan Persky reads it.
 
Education and Democracy
by David Banerjee   
David Banerjee explores the reasons for educating our children through Neil Postman's The End of Education
 
Corpses, Brats and Cricket Music
by Bruce Serafin   
Bruce Serafin reads a poet that reminds him of black sausage
 
Reading Bloor Street, sort of
by Gordon Lockheed   
Gordon Lockheed reads a locally-produced chapbook of Bloor Street vignettes
 
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