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David Modigliani said that he was at this dinner because he imposed himself on people, and the Sandrine’s waiter who motioned for him to quiet down would not argue. He offered a poem, “Transactions,” about an elephant trainer who got traded...
The most compelling case for Canada’s little-man complex, however, is its tendency to produce, on occasion, a public intellectual intent on gleefully pointing out the most obvious and shopworn defects of America’s politics and people. The newest excoriation comes from James Laxer, a...
"From Hell," retells the story of Jack the Ripper by recontextualizing it into the social and political milieu of its time. Queen Victoria, the Freemasons, the Elephant Man and the beginnings of media hysteria get swirled into the atmospheric mists of Whitechapel, London. The comic version may well turn out...
“It’s extraordinary that by the year 2025, one out of four people will be Muslim,” Enlger said. “There’s an elephant in the middle of the room that we’re starting to take a...
Gornick’s contention that for personal nonfiction to work, the narrator must adopt a persona that must not fall “into the pit of confessionalism or therapy on the page or naked self-absorption,” is an accurate and important observation. By creating a...