Reawakening the Brief, and Other Unmentionables
A good set of underwear can reveal who we want to be
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Life After the Death of Jazz
The sound you hear over the bellyaching of purists is jazz’s fresh new blend
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The Ends of the Earth
The literature of two island outposts, Newfoundland and Tasmania, has captured the international imagination
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Where Beauty Has No Ebb
Dublin is overrun with Eurotrash. To get to know the real Ireland, seek solitude and solace along the country’s many beaches
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How I Became Exquisite
There in my favourite bar, Legends, whose walls were plastered with photos of Theodor Herzl and that girl who sang “You Light Up My Life,” plus also an unshaven Fred …
Read More from A Little Useless Geometry & Other Matters
WATER Hopelessly conformist to any vessel, wavers beneath the smallest breath, takes on the colours of childhood. If you try to reason it throws back your image and withdraws to …
Read More A Song for the Yak
I feel pain a yak says when I stick a backgammon set in my eye or Celine Dion I should clarify the yak says grammar is a rich ape that …
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Swimming with Mao
Survival and family
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My Life with Tolstoy
Like the acting of Christopher Walken or the movies of Eric Rohmer, Tolstoy’s magnum opus is a magnet for foolish opinions
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A Family Affair
For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment of capital gains for fishers; for Jeffrey Simpson it was the …
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