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The Psychopathology of (Northern) College Life An English teacher blushes at the dirty parts in the books he assigns and a physicist laments about his students stupidity. By G.P. Lainsbury |
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Occam's Depilatory
"Things aren't better than the things that they replace just because they're new." By Ford Pier |
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Two Solitudes: A Contact No Contact StoryOur latest contributor, Margaret Nowaczyk, shares her memory of her first contact with First Nations patients. "Neither before nor during my rotation did anybody teach me how to talk and listen to First Nations peoples. I was an immigrant to Canada, figuring out the vocabulary of body language and in-jokes and the social niceties in which Canadians engaged as part of their verbal exchanges, my own attempts at banter flailing and failing." Read the rest of Margaret's Contact story online now. If you would like to submit a story, check out Contact No Contact for details. |
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Wholesome Reading
Robert Everett-Green discovers a book written by his literary non-relative Evelyn Everett-Green, a 19th century Methodist who has better reviews on Goodreads than James Joyce. By Robert Everett-Green |
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The Second Life of Kiril Kadiiski
Kiril Kadiiski was regarded as a great poet and translator until it was uncovered that his most famous translation could be a forgery. By Ann Diamond |
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THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
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| WRITING QUESTIONS, QUANDARIES & PICKLES | |
Dear Geist, Where do you stand on the use of they as a singular pronoun? As in “Jody couldn't attend the meeting, but they sent a summary of the project.” Even when people agree that it's high time for a gender-neutral pronoun, an awful lot of them reject they because it's bad grammar. —Calvin, Brandon MB Click here to read the answer. | |