We know attention spans have been shrinking for decades. It has something to do with television. It’s also been often observed…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
We all know, now, how dangerous books can be. So dangerous they can’t even be read on a school bus in…
Cameo Remembering our younger selves in the rain. Ducking under stairways, sheltering. Streetlamps reflected trembling in cold puddles. It was…
Opens online, that is. Which only makes sense because the Internet is the only place that could store Jorge Luis…
That’s the question Stephen Marche asks in a provocative essay at Partisan Magazine. It’s a long, thoughtful piece, with much…
From CNQ 92 (Spring 2015)
In a story that might have been taken from The Onion, but which instead is reported by the CBC, a…
Over at the Washington Post, music critic Chris Richards asks why there is such a bland critical consensus surrounding the biggest…
Just as with most sectors of the economy, rich writers are getting richer and the rest are falling behind. At…
Over at the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks wonders whether we’ve reached a point where there are too…