CLIVE JAMES Clive James, man of many talents, roles and names to fame, admits that on some occasions when he spoke he did not know what he was...
HEADY DAYS All my sins are remembered Part 1: When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one...
GEORGE GRANT It was a simple world back then, George Part 1: In 1965 George Grant published his influential treatise in Canadian political...
I can not find any previous introduction in this sub-section; it is probably timely to update whatever introduction I have placed here since I...
THEY CAME AND WENT: 1957 TO 1977 SWIFTER THAN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE Part 1: I could not write a book, but I could write an essay or a...
HEADY DAYS All my sins are remembered Part 1: When one writes about politics one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which...
Part 1: For forty years Edward Said (1935-2003) taught at Columbia University where he was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature....
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer(1939- ) arrived in the shops in London in October 1970. By March 1971, it had nearly sold out its second...
As I ate dinner with my wife yesterday: chicken schnitzel, mashed and salad--a meal I had prepared while she was away in the afternoon---we...
It has been 18 years, 1995 to 2013, since I last taught Shakespeare or any other drama content in my classes in an educational system. The drama I...
As a genre, the historical novel demands colour and movement. It is not history but imaginative re-creation; a kind of dream-edifice, based...
I don't write science fiction, said Ray Bradbury(1920-2012) in one of his many interviews. I've only done one science fiction book and that's...
The NBC networks popular TV serial drama The West Wing was broadcast in America from 22 September 1999 to 14 May 2006. In that same week of...
Between 1935 and 1940 Anna Akhmatova(1889-1966), a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon,...
In 1994, as I was heading into my last five years of employment as a teacher, the ruling Hutu government in the then small African nation of...
I was just getting back into the teaching profession in the first week of September 1969 when the name Gaddafi was in the news. I had been...
Brian Cox was on SBSONE TV again in Australia this week.(1) This Part 4 of 5 programs was broadcast in the UK in March 2010 and, as is often the...
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