Essays, New & Selected
Essays, New & Selected
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…