Essays, New & Selected
Essays, New & Selected
TO BOYCOTT or not to boycott, that is the unstated question at the heart of an important debate about the Toronto productions of Showboat and Miss Saigon in the current issue of Fuse, the alternative magazine about the arts. M.…
I wrote a column about magazines for the Globe and Mail for several years. This piece and the one that follows appeared in that space. … “ONLY WHAT IS of a kindly nature is printed … everything unpleasant or unduly…
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…