What always strikes me, after many years on The Hart House Review, is the vast amount of literary and artistic talent pooling on the University of Toronto campus. Maybe a small portion of this is a testament to the historical literary legacy of the...
The other night I had the privilege of attending the Lieutenant Governor’s Office’s red carpet gala premiere screening of Helen Mirren’s The Audience, which had just premiered in London at the Gielgud Theatre, but was transmitted live via satellite to Toronto’s...
So, I’ve been bad about posting lately. Back in April, I left for a month long holiday in Europe (cruise from Miami to Madeira to Portugal to Barcelona, flew from Barcelona to Vienna for a week to see a friend, hosteled it in Copenhagen for three days, and...
From The Hart House Review, 2013 edition “Writing is supposed to be the ultimate act of empathy, but its not. It’s a forgery; the ultimate act of a mooch,” says Maddie, a teenage character in “Dominoes”, one of the...
Marie Gachet was not a woman to make small concessions. In whatever she did, she was beyond reproach. She had been born and raised in Auvers-sur-Oise, the valley town beyond the hills of Paris. Upon the hill of the town rested the church. From its vantage point...
