On Recognizing Beauty

Patricia Kelly, Simon Fraser University. download this essay: Kelly_Beauty “Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chance of seeing it go down.” Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just What woman hasn’t felt the attention of a man? Women live with the effects of the subtle and direct gaze [...]

Mockingbird and Jim Crow

By Michael Cox One of my favourite books of all time, which also happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, has been thoroughly downgraded, one might even say trashed, by an article in the New Yorker.  The novel, Malcolm Gladwell writes in the August [...]

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