COLUMN |
DATE |
Do not disturb |
December 31, 2005 |
Coming down firmly on both
sides: Steven
Spielberg's Munich refuses to be bound by the rigours of truth |
December 27, 2005 |
City of light: Toronto is
fervently remaking itself
into a vessel
of innovation & culture |
December 24, 2005 |
Christmas confessions of an
unbeliever |
December 24, 2005 |
ROM with a view: With the
opening of its newest
galleries,
the Royal Ontario Museum hopes to shed some light on both its collections
and its own
history |
December 20, 2005 |
Canada's emotional
necessity |
December 17, 2005 |
Life through his eyes: Photo
blogger Sam
Javanrouh marvels
in minutiae |
December 13, 2005 |
'Re-educating' Tibet |
December 10, 2005 |
Creation myths of the fourth
estate: Hollywood
finds
melodrama in journalistic integrity |
December 6, 2005 |
One Scream, twice stolen: The
artist behind the
painting has
his own chilling story |
November 29, 2005 |
The frivolity of
evil |
November 26, 2005 |
The Deutsch: my kind of volk:
A new Web service
brings the best of German ideas to auslander inboxes |
November 22, 2005 |
Mark Steyn,
opinionmonger |
November 19, 2005 |
Anti-Americanism,
bred in the bone
|
November 17, 2005 |
In the shadow of greatness:
Play depicts Welles,
Olivier
facing the terror of theatrical accomplishment |
November 15, 2005 |
A torpedo in a three-piece
suit |
November 11, 2005 |
Not a day over 500: Hans
Memling's portraits
make 1465 look
like yesterday |
November 8, 2005 |
Is Maureen Dowd
necessary? |
November 5, 2005 |
No more boobs on the tube: The
gumshoe has given way
to
PhDs and quirky, brooding geniuses |
November 1, 2005 |
Hollywood's false
martyrs |
October 29, 2005 |
Memoirs of a gossipy egotist:
From beyond the
grave, Nobel
Prize winner Elias Canetti smears reputations |
October 25, 2005 |
The socialism of fools |
October 22, 2005 |
So long, Saturday
Night, for now: It has not
made money
since '48, but magazine has perfected Lazarus act |
October 21, 2005 |
The original man of mystery:
Sherlock
Holmes author returns
to popular literature |
October 18, 2005 |
The two Harold
Pinters |
October 17, 2005 |
Rewriting history
(literally) |
October 15, 2005 |
12 angry men and 13 whiny
ones: A book of 25
essays shows
guys in 2005 love to complain |
October 11, 2005 |
Why are aliens so boring?
|
October 8, 2005 |
The Great one: AGO's
Catherine exhibition gives
a shout out
to vanity |
October 4, 2005 |
Canada's urban gold
rush |
October 1, 2005 |
An obnoxious look at China
|
October 1, 2005 |
The truth about sex
slavery |
September 28, 2005 |
Sorry, case clothed: Russell
Smith's style rulings are
the law
because he says so |
September 27, 2005 |
The values battle |
September 24, 2005 |
50 years after Lolita |
September 20, 2005 |
Stalin's grand
delusion |
September 17, 2005 |
Documenting a feat of
monumental
destruction |
September 13, 2005 |
Learning to bear the
unbearable |
September 10, 2005 |
Public tragedy, private pain: In
a sea of powerful
images,
where do we find catharsis? |
September 6, 2005 |
Where's the CBC
vision? |
September 3, 2005 |
A city built on mud and
optimism: New
Orleans made its
mark on history long ago |
September 1, 2005 |
The jagged edges of Broken
Flowers: Deadpan
can only go so
far before it's dead boring |
August 30, 2005 |
Ontarians will be eloquent
victims |
August 27, 2005 |
Bebop's hidden history
revealed: New disc like
winning the
lottery without a ticket |
August 23, 2005 |
From mass murder to barroom
kitsch |
August 20, 2005 |
Imperfect Molnar is better than
none: Celebrating
Hungary's
most famous 'clever young scoundrel' |
August 16, 2005 |
Multiculturalism's eloquent
enemy |
August 15, 2005 |
Academics are asking the
wrong
questions |
August 13, 2005 |
The Jung offenders:
Psychoanalyst's descendants sully
his
reputation by trying to control it |
August 9, 2005 |
Wahhabism chills the
blood |
August 6, 2005 |
It's all in the beginning:
Oft-quoted - rarely in
context - great
opening lines in literature |
August 2, 2005 |
Moderate Islam's
awakening |
July 30, 2005 |
All that is left behind:
Thankfully, some of
Andy
Goldsworthy's work doesn't melt, decay or wash away |
July 26, 2005 |
Libel tourism goes to
London |
July 23, 2005 |
The death wish of cinema:
Who's to blame for
Hollywood's box-office blues? |
July 19, 2005 |
Islamophobia isn't the
problem |
July 16, 2005 |
The science we're
digging: It's a golden age
for archaeology |
July 12, 2005 |
Tales he never told
|
July 9, 2005 |
Elmasry's fantasy
outrage |
July 8, 2005 |
Is Laurie the cure for what ails
TV?: House's ornery
doctor
may be the best medicine for a tired medium |
July 5, 2005 |
Origins of cottage country:
Loved by a biographer --
and few
others |
July 2, 2005 |
Seeing minimalists in a
maximal space: An
innovative gallery
celebrates two years in upstate New York |
June 28, 2005 |
Caravan's meltdown
|
June 25, 2005 |
A 'parody of talent': A new
book posits that Saul
Steinberg
did for art what James Joyce did for literature |
June 21, 2005 |
The miracle of human trust
|
June 18, 2005 |
The secret life of the
octothorpe: No one really
knows how
the word for this familiar symbol came to exist -- which is what makes its
story so
fascinating |
June 14, 2005 |
For the glory of
France |
June 11, 2005 |
A return to form: The Best of
Youth recalls
Italian cinema's
glory days |
June 7, 2005 |
How the Auschwitz Trial
failed |
June 4, 2005 |
Keeping history in the
family: A biographer's
worst enemies
are the subject's heirs |
May 31, 2005 |
All the news fit to ... bury: The
Times' blind eye to
the
Holocaust |
May 28, 2005 |
Build a literary legacy for
yourself: Smart aspiring
writers
have their archives ready |
May 24, 2005 |
The party that can
accommodate
everyone |
May 21, 2005 |
Trying to find the real Lady
Day: Those who try to
tell Billie
Holiday's story often discover an unknowable life |
May 17, 2005 |
Canada's handout culture:
Gay and not so proud:
Noriega of
the north |
May 14, 2005 |
Stop the treadmill, I
want to get off: Live
cable news has
become an art form in its extremes |
May 10, 2005 |
Mau is less |
May 7, 2005 |
Man of records: Freakonomics
author's statistical
microscope
reveals a life less ordinary |
May 3, 2005 |
Whatever it takes to
win |
April 30, 2005 |
Buying bliss for a buck or
two: Dollar stores
have become a
welcome feature of our retail landscape |
April 26, 2005 |
Questions the Prime Minister
wouldn't
answer |
April 25, 2005 |
Surprised by happiness:
Why are the
middle-aged happier
than the young? |
April 23, 2005 |
A vision? Yeah, it's around here
somewhere... |
April 20, 2005 |
The life and lies of Charles
Ponzi: New addition to
the
con-man canon suggests an honest man can't be grifted |
April 19, 2005 |
The last amusing
Frenchman |
April 16, 2005 |
The mind of the self-mad man:
Writer James Atlas
flaunts his
failure like a badge of honour |
April 12, 2005 |
Preaching to the Guardian's
converted |
April 9, 2005 |
The great unread: Many have
bought these books,
but has
anyone ever finished them? |
April 5, 2005 |
The foxes dine out in
Geneva |
April 2, 2005 |
Ignorance's colourful
bloom |
March 26, 2005 |
The Georgia of good and evil:
Miss Savannah
murder trial
reveals much about this Southern society |
March 22, 2005 |
This President deserves
credit |
March 19, 2005 |
The triumph of The Gates:
Christo's project had a
social
impact that was deeply felt |
March 8, 2005 |
Pearson was a
leader |
March 5, 2005 |
Hey, aren't you that guy from
that movie?:
Memorable,
awkward moments among the Slightly Known |
March 1, 2005 |
Summers performs the
loyalty dance |
February 26, 2005 |
Stiff prose of an anxious
era |
February 19, 2005 |
Krazy Kat at last joins the
kanon: Those who
decried comic
strips were on the wrong side of history |
February 15, 2005 |
Seeing a cult through a
child's eyes |
February 12, 2005 |
The perfect end: Fiction and
cinema's most
memorable finales
are inevitably surprising |
February 8, 2005 |
Canada's Muslim
refusenik |
February 5, 2005 |
The house that built literature:
The walls of a
famed Brooklyn
artists' residence are talking |
February 1, 2005 |
An enemy of
principles |
January 29, 2005 |
Stars playing stars: To
succeed, these performances
should go
beyond imitation |
January 25, 2005 |
There's no right to know in
China |
January 22, 2005 |
Speech among history's
best |
January 21, 2005 |
Engaged to the horrors of war:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
brings the
trenches into full focus |
January 18, 2005 |
Dan Rather got away with it
again |
January 15, 2005 |
The checkered career of the
adjective:
Much-maligned part of
speech has a place in literature |
January 11, 2005 |
Utopian ends, murderous
means |
January 8, 2005 |
A most unique criticism: Gary
Giddins came to
jazz like a
sinner comes to Jesus |
January 4, 2005 |
A key moment for the West |
January 3, 2005 |