BLUE DUETS

It's been a terrible week.  We may be on the cusp of a wider war in the Middle East.  And even if we're not, conditions in Gaza rema...

  I like David Frum.  He's one of a handful of right-leaning commentators, like Canada's own Andrew Coyne, whom I always read becaus...

My book on minimalism, forthcoming from Guernica Editions, ends with a chapter on patience, which is really a minimalist response to the wor...

I have fallen as I climbed the stairs from the Paris Metro into a rainy, windswept day.  I have fallen in the middle of York Avenue in Toron...

When you open the covers of a novel, you open the door or a gate or a window onto a different world view. That's how I was going to begi...

One night last weekend, I was sitting in the living room, which was lit only by the Christmas tree, some lights among the Santas on the mant...

I don't know whether I'm proud or dismayed when I say that I've had several cats who are smarter than Donald Trump.  When I brok...

There are dozens of people who are more fit to talk to you about walking than I am.  I'm thinking of Thoreau, whose title I stole--actua...

  I never sleep particularly well in August.  I first noticed this eight years ago when we adopted Tuck and Lyra in early September and I su...

None of my internet searches turned up the story.  But then I decided to search the tabs on my iPad and there it was, published in The Narwh...