The once-in-a-generation genius of Alice Munro
In the early 2000s, a young Canadian writer who shall remain nameless found herself in the backseat of a car…
Heard but not seen
The simplicity and joy of audio recordings
Parent trap
The truth about single motherhood
Blood lines
Where does a mother’s history end and a daughter’s begin?
Keep on trucking
Canada’s Covid protestors have a point
Justin Trudeau’s election gamble is backfiring
In 1966, a year before Pierre Elliott Trudeau first blazed to power, the bard-poet Leonard Cohen published his second and final…
The Canadian election is turning into a comedy of cringe
Next week my compatriots will cast their votes in what has arguably been the worst Canadian election ever. By ‘worst’…
Parent trap: WhatsApp groups are feeding our fears
The mother of a little girl in my son’s year at school recently committed suicide. On the surface she was…
Justin Trudeau has fallen from grace – and he has no one to blame but himself
An Italian friend who lives in Rome texted me to ask about the current political crisis in Canada that is…
Why are the middle classes so obsessed with schools?
One thing I love about my adopted country is the widespread cultural contempt for dullness. Unlike North Americans, intelligent British…
Sticking to his guns
Whenever there’s another mass shooting in America, like the massacre in San Bernardino last month, I think immediately of my…
The quiet Nobel winner
Alice Munro may be the most Canadian writer in the world. That’s why Canadians can’t quite believe her achievement
