Villette
Villette has relevance to the modern experience of foreign life. It explores the themes of alienation and identity through the evolution of the character of the narrator, Miss Lucy Snowe, an English school teacher in Villette, a fictional portrait of 19th century…
A Hero of Our Time
Neither those who revere Lord Louis Mountbatten as a founder of the modern Commonwealth nor those who think of him as a dilettante and a lightweight will find their views fully vindicated in this well balanced biography of a man who helped…
Michele Landsberg’s Guide to Children’s Books
Let it be said at the outset that I approached Guide to Children’s Books with what are commonly known as “grave doubts”. Guidebooks, I thought, are either for the hopelessly timid or for those who are already converted and seek only to…
A Time of Turmoil: Canadian Politics in the Eighties
From my perspective, the most interesting aspects of Don Johnston’s book Up the Hill, published earlier this year, are the insights into the power of the Prime Minister and his office in our present parliamentary system and the reaction Johnston’s book provoked…
A Time for Peace
De temps à autre un livre est publié pour des raisons politiques. Lénine, Mao, De Gaulle tous ont publié des ouvrages afin d’exprimer comme tant d’autres leurs idées avec l’espoir de communiquer une pensée, une idéologie et surtout passer à l’histoire.
A Perfect Spy
John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) has done it again in his latest novel, A Perfect Spy (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection). I found it among the best of his books I have read or seen portrayed on film and TV. A…
Wife Of . . .
Sondra Gotlieb’s ebullient personality has had a somewhat stunning effect on the District of Columbia. Her “irreverent account of life in Washington” brings new meaning both to high society cocktail tactics, and the effective use of ever-shrinking hospitality allowances. Canada has come…
Letters to the Editor
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Closed Circuits: The Sellout of Canadian Television
he vision is of more public ownership, community programming on cable, local control, more Canadian content, a more responsible private sector, fewer U.S. signals and a CBC head office west of Winnipeg, at least.
The 49th Paradox: Canada in North America
t was with considerable reluctance that I agreed to comment on Richard Gwyn’s new book, The 49th Paradox: Canada in North America. Having spent almost 15 years over more than three decades at the Embassy in Washington, I have grown weary of…
