Essays, New & Selected
Essays, New & Selected
IF REUBIN SLONIM were a controversial, literate politician, his memoirs would have been much sought after. Publishers would have competed to get him into print. Unfortunately, Slonim is not a politician; he’s a rabbi — a controversial, literate rabbi. Twenty…
THREE OR FOUR years ago R.D. Laing, the existential psychiatrist, went on a widely publicized and somewhat disastrous North American speaking tour. I heard him in a crowded gymnasium at the University of Guelph. Most of us who turned out that…
IN ITS DECEMBER 1974 issue, Encounter magazine published part of a moving dialogue between Amos Elon, an Israeli journalist and historian, and Sana Hassan, an Arab student leader and the daughter of a former Egyptian ambassador to the United States.…
This essay, written for the Globe and Mail in 1974, is a review of the Fifteenth Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica which had just appeared. Like other general encyclopedias, Britannica claimed to be ‘international’ in scope. I wanted to see how well Canada was represented…