Tag: theresa-kishkan

  • On Still Not Knowing Greek, Alice Munro, and Theresa Kishkan

    Illness, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath I’m re-reading Virginia Woolf this week: To the Lighthouse, and some letters and re-edited journals, with a dip into Quentin Bell’s early 1970s and rather severe biography for additional context. Bell is, of course, Woolf’s nephew, and I came to his biography back in high school, before I read…

  • Art Crimes and Misdemeanours

    When I was in high school, a friend and I often hung out at Café Wim on Sussex, near the current location of the National Gallery. Safdie’s glass and metal marvel was still under construction, and it was sited in such a way that it mirrored the Parliament Buildings across from it. Ottawa was an…