cd’s critical appraisals

Shattering Stephen Harper’s legacy

At a slim 124 pages, Mel Hurtig doesn’t leave himself much track to bulldoze the Conservative prime…

Finding joy and gusto in writing work

Ray Bradbury’s fiction is like a fire that lights the imagination of the reader. His…

Reading Cormac McCarthy: The good, the bad and the ugly

Enough with all the puking on screen!

I am sick of actors getting sick in the movies and on TV shows.

You can’t escape it. It’s hard to find a show on the big or little screen where you aren’t forced to watch as a character tosses up the goods.

Bloody hell! Why the Yanks keep letting the Brits storm Hollywood hills

Book Review

Effin’ Good Eh!

My Effin’ Life by Geddy Lee

Famous last words (in music)

David Bowie and Leonard Cohen’s final works: An appreciation

A book by any other name

What’s the story behind that dragon tattoo anyway?

If a book’s title is going to mean anything, it should mean something. Besides the cover, book buzz and maybe the author’s name, what else gets a reader to pick up a novel and…