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Articles by Charles Foran


Film

The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler

More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen

Books

An American Type of Sadness

US writers keep mining our stuff-packed, consumerist world. Why do Canadians prefer to keep things tidy?

Urban Affairs

A Resonant Boom

How Shanghai’s citizens view their city’s seemingly unending growth.

Books

The Paradox of Paradise

Adventures in Waynejohnstonland

Books

It’s a Porn World After All

Commercial concupiscence consumes global culture

Radio

Literary Landscapes: A Novel Approach

On the road with Noah Richler

Field Notes

The New Word Order

Books

A Civilizing Influence

Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West

Books

The Life Quixotic

Cervantes’ man of la Mancha rides again

Books

Burning Man

Language

Eloquence Lost

On Abraham Lincoln, The O.C., and the demise of the typographical mind

Language

Idiom-proof

Why can’t the Canadian dialect match the wit and inventiveness of Irish or Australian speech?

Language

MSN Spoken Here

The latest street lingo springs from the computer keyboard and is changing the form of the written word

Language

Lingua Franchise

Mat saleh calling it English killer language. Wah. For chiak kantang, salary-men it a bit the different, lah?

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