As you may or may not have noticed (although I hope by now it's kind of obvious), I have a thing for books. Jonathan Lethem once said:...

Last month's New Yorker  had an excellent piece by Steve Shapin (of Leviathan and the Air-Pump fame, and a prominent scholar on my preli...

Remembrance Day always makes me ruminative about the place of history in our current consciences, because it is one of the few holidays wher...

From January to June 2009, CBC Radio's program Ideas aired a series from producer David Cayley, aptly titled How To Think About Science ...

Now, I'm no Zizek fangirl -- I like to watch my Hitchcock without Lacanian psychoanalysis , although I will admit the man has an excelle...