I am still struggling to overcome my jet lag after a long trip to India and the Middle East; therefore, this blog is short and a tad different. A few of you may have read David Suzuki’s “Letters to My Grandchildren.” An accomplished environment activist, academic and author Suzuki draws on vignettes from his personal …
Where is here?
In the course of familiarizing myself with Canadian literature, I discovered essays by literary critic, university professor and editor Northrop Frye. He had explored the “garrison mentality” theme common in Canadian literature, assumed to arise from part of Canada's cold climate, northern wilderness and colonial mentality and fears of the emptiness of the Canadian landscape and …
Treasuring dried flowers in a book
Nostalgia. Celebrated writer and two-time Giller Prize winner MG Vassanji’s latest offering is an interesting exposition of a future where a human’s memories can be selectively enhanced or replaced with fictional ones to generate a new persona. Until we can get there, I have only my rapidly fading recollection of days gone by. An element …
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