The New Yorker magazine recently published a two-part article by Janet Malcolm in which the writer excoriates a brother scribe, Joe McGinniss, for what Malcolm views as base literary acts—specifically, doublecrossing the lead character in McGinniss’s 1983 nonfiction bestseller, Fatal Vision.
Most provincial lieutenant-governors spend their languid tenures mouthing benign governor-generalities, careful never to express a controversial opinion or quotable thought. British Columbia’s David See-Chai Lam, 65, the first Chinese-Canadian to occupy the viceregal office, is different.
While your review of the Toronto production of Les Miserables (“Kaleidoscope of passions,” Cover, March 27) provides the deserved credit for a passionate, thoroughly enjoyable production, the criticism of the recurrence of melody and verse of many of the play’s songs is somewhat naïve.
Could we back up a bit? The established order is beating up on Canadian athletes at the moment. It is juicy reading. The established order is represented by the Dubin inquiry into the mobile drugstore that masqueraded as our Olympic track team.By Allan Fotheringham4 min
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