Essays, New & Selected
Essays, New & Selected
I WROTE a monthly television column for Saturday Night for seven years. Although it never stopped being hard work — I write slowly even at the best of times — it was fun. I learned an enormous amount, not least…
The next two essays were written to mark anniversaries — the tenth anniversary of Pierre Trudeau’s invocation of the War Measures Act in 1970, and the sixtieth anniversary of Canada’s imprisoning eight communists in 1931. In both cases, men and…
Had I pursued a Ph.D., I would have specialized in periodical literature; I’ve loved old magazines since I was a kid. After I began writing for Saturday Night, it became apparent that the magazine’s financial situation was so precarious that…