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On pop, soda, and rabies
A few days ago, I took aim at an old piece by Stephen Henighan, which proposed that the disappearance of Canadian spelling was evidence of a culture in decline. Is spelling an important token of our...
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Inside-out
How Insensitive by Russell Smith. Porcupine’s Quill, 258 pp. 0-88984-143-8. I’m late to the party on this one; the book was published in 1994, and thanks to my usual literary time warp, I’m only...
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Russell Smith on fictional sex
Bravo to Russell Smith for his essay in The Globe & Mail on sex in fiction, and in particular for saying what nobody else ever seems to say about the obnoxious Bad Sex in Fiction Award: …the Brits...
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True Romance
Sheila Heti hardly endears herself to me in her Open Book Toronto interview with Nathaniel G. Moore by suggesting, essentially, that all novelists save her are peddling boring, unreadable crap. But...
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