Language, like culture, is continually subject to a biological evolution – the result is often spontaneous, surprising and remarkable, as long-time author and logophile Howard Richler has always known. The Montreal native’s seventh book, How Happy Became Homosexual and Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts, is an in-depth (not exhaustive by any means but more than enough […]
We have created countless pages and reels of film dedicated to documenting World War II’s military action, and the systematic destruction of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis. However, we tend to lose the details when looking at events from such a broad scope. A stand-out documentary, The Last Days, makes history all […]
The mileage you get from Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha will vary according to how willing you are to see another movie about over-educated, under-employed white people floundering for their adulthoods in the financially apocalyptic New York City of this millennial age. Though, to be fair, the eponymous Frances (Greta Gerwig) does also visit Sacramento and […]
Language, like culture, is continually subject to a biological evolution – the result is often spontaneous, surprising and remarkable, as long-time author and logophile Howard Richler has always known. The Montreal native’s seventh book, How Happy Became Homosexual and Other Mysterious Semantic Shifts, is an in-depth (not exhaustive by any means but more than enough […] 