COLUMN |
DATE |
How about my footprint on
your magniloquent rear?; 2007's big word was yet another waste of
breath |
31 December 2007 |
Primary lessons |
29 December 2007 |
The Light fantastic; Loved but
neglected painting of Jesus became a touchstone of mass
culture |
24 December 2007 |
My church: the mind's 'theatre of
simultaneous possibilities' |
22 December 2007 |
With this ring I do thee confuse;
William Trevor and the emotional uncertainty of love and
marriage |
18 December 2007 |
You are what you do. (So choose
carefully) |
15 December 2007 |
A tittle tattle most foul; Agatha
Christie was a woman who knew how to take her revenge |
11 December 2007 |
6 1/2 YEARS; Enemies need
charming, too; Magnate undone by poor PR skills |
11 December 2007 |
How are we sorry? Let us count
the ways |
8 December 2007 |
In Oprah & Streisand we
trust; If celebrities can tell us what books we should read, why shouldn't
they tell us who will make the best president of the United
States? |
4 December 2007 |
Torqued
Intelligence |
1 December 2007 |
You look terrific today, readers; And
you just proved how well flattery works |
27 November 2007 |
Into the heart of political
correctness |
24 November 2007 |
Calm among the chaos; Edward
Hopper's paintings excel at composition |
20 November 2007 |
Reviving Victorian values |
17 November 2007 |
Better stones and gardens; Henry
Moore's sculpture gets the outdoor showing it deserves |
13 November 2007 |
The failed career of Norman
Mailer |
12 November 2007 |
The Afghanistan war is
just |
10 November 2007 |
Prude awakening; A new London
show takes a refreshing look at sex in art, but doesn't do away with the fig
leaf entirely |
6 November 2007 |
Smart politicians hire ghosts |
3 November 2007 |
Living by the remorse code; Graham
Greene let guilt guide him in life and in literature |
23 October 2007 |
Creativity begins with
discipline |
17 October 2007 |
Art for nobody's sake; The peculiar
family saga of Canadian painter Max Maynard |
16 October 2007 |
Lex Luthor hearts Superman: Your tax
dollars at work |
13 October 2007 |
Youth is pasted on the young; The
'teen' wasn't always a product of marketing |
9 October 2007 |
A cloud behind every silver
lining |
6 October 2007 |
To the turnstiles!; Introducing our new
crusade to cut admission fees at our national gems |
2 October 2007 |
Why Tory screwed up |
29 September 2007 |
Finally making Stein readable; Book
gives clarity to U.S. writer's life and work |
25 September 2007 |
The last words of a toxic
intellectual |
22 September 2007 |
This Horseman holds a mirror; There's
much of Mordecai Richler in his fiction |
18 September 2007 |
Feminists fall silent |
15 September 2007 |
A friend to Hezbollah, an enemy of
logic |
14 September 2007 |
Mulroney still waiting for credit; But
Canadians won't give it to him |
11 September 2007 |
Uniting Hendrix, Rimbaud and the sari;
David Davidar's new novel charts a course from India to Canada |
11 September 2007 |
Piecing together a royal bag lady;
Louise Nevelson brought a grand vision to the world of sculpture |
4 September 2007 |
The man who would kill
separatism |
4 September 2007 |
Civilizing barbarism |
1 September 2007 |
'We think with the objects we
love';
People attach deep meaning to things they own |
28 August 2007 |
Modernism isn't written in
stone |
25 August 2007 |
And they talked in speech
bubbles;
Canada's comic arts elite gather at Toronto fest |
21 August 2007 |
A family of Nazis |
18 August 2007 |
Inside the cluttered mind of a
genius;
Robert Frost's musings are both insightful, insane |
14 August 2007 |
Iran's war on its own |
11 August 2007 |
Sincere ties that bind; Mad Men
tackles
the world of atomic age advertising |
7 August 2007 |
A psychoanalyst for his age
(but not
ours) |
4 August 2007 |
A life spent chipping the Wall;
Ulrich
Muhe was a vocal opponent of East Germany |
31 July 2007 |
A continuing
nightmare |
28 July 2007 |
Wasting time is good for
your soul;
Distractions can help productivity and happiness |
24 July 2007 |
A dark prince's lonely
world |
21 July 2007 |
Intimate oppression; In her new
book, Jill
Fields shows how women's undergarments can be more tyrannical than
titillating |
17 July 2007 |
How the CIA lost its way |
14 July 2007 |
An empire who could dance;
'Honest
Ed' Mirvish, the original discount merchant and theatre revivalist, dies at
92 |
12 July 2007 |
To keep supping with the Devil;
There
seems to be no end of sympathy for the evil one |
10 July 2007 |
The People's Republic of
Silence |
7 July 2007 |
Pretty facades still need
substance;
Without good art, a museum is just a building |
3 July 2007 |
Fatah hasn't the will to
win |
30 June 2007 |
A buffet sure to leave you hungry;
Arts &
Letters Daily delivers best ideas at high speeds |
26 June 2007 |
New York isn't presidential
country |
23 June 2007 |
Where the Bears don't fear to
tread;
Tracking the pawprints of a gay subculture |
19 June 2007 |
A continent under siege; After
decades
of bad immigration policy, can the Europe we know be saved? |
16 June 2007 |
The eternal stain of
cribbing;
Plagiarism is hard to get away with, yet easy to do |
12 June 2007 |
This is why people hate Toronto;
No, not
the new ROM - but the pretentious, self-parodic ceremony that launched
it |
9 June 2007 |
The big slosh: Guzzling
neo-noir; Irish
author Ken Bruen is redefining hard-boiled |
5 June 2007 |
'I am special, I am special. Look
at
me' |
2 June 2007 |
L.A.'s wartime German invasion;
Elite
emigres formed talented, troubled group |
29 May 2007 |
The lustration of Ryszard
Kapuscinski |
26 May 2007 |
It's all about who it's not about;
The roman
a clef is more insulting than flattering |
22 May 2007 |
Moscow's Mid-East
gamble |
19 May 2007 |
A loss of language and the
language of
loss; The poetics of Alzheimer's |
15 May 2007 |
Laughter is not the Arab
way |
12 May 2007 |
How do we live in the now?;
Trying to
define the tenor of modern design |
8 May 2007 |
Who wouldn't vote for this
guy? |
5 May 2007 |
Arguing about architecture;
Nathan
Glazer on Modernist buildings and their discontents |
1 May 2007 |