Not so very long after beginning my university studies some many years ago, I became aware of a significant hole in my education. Despite being an “A” student all through my primary and secondary school years, I seemed to have graduated high school without ever having read much in the way of books that would […]
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A Tove Jansson Reading List
Like many avid readers, when I find an author I very much enjoy I tend to read through his or her entire body of work. Most recently this has led me deep into the novels of the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson.
Myth of the Secular Bibliography
For those who were intellectually captivated by the recently broadcast seven part CBC Ideas series “The Myth of the Secular” and found yourself too engrossed in listening to jot down all the fascinating books being discussed, I’ve prepared what I hope will be a helpful list of those very works.
The Serious Point Lost in the Mantel Kerfuffle
By now you’ve no doubt become aware of the teapot-filling tempest that was inspired by a few very well-spoken lines of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant lecture delivered as the first of the London Review of Books Winter Lecture series at the British Museum. However what is being obscured by all the dust kicked into the air […]