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New Book: Rejecting the Ideology of Progress
Colin Todhunter
‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India),...
REVIEW: Martyrs to the Unspeakable – A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
Edward Curtin
To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created with Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations...
In Defence of the Em Dash
JR Leach
This is a tale of punctuation. A small one — a dash, to be precise. The em dash, for...
MAID of Honour
Max AK
We put the can into Canada, read the poster in the lobby, where a range of minorities, herself included,...
Race, Segregation, and Sectarianism in American Cinema
David Penner
Due to the capitalistically orchestrated scourge of illiteratization and the machinations of the mass media, only a small percentage...
Real Holes in Neverland
Edward Curtin
Even though it isn’t a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe...
“Muleta”
Jordan Henderson
The red cloth, used by the Matador, to maneuver the bull in the third and final stage of the...
Nothing to Say, Ma
Diego Sandoval
As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we...
The View of the Shrew – available now!
Dear Off-Guardian readers, as someone who has been honoured to share my thoughts with you through these pages, I’m...
Fakes and Forgeries
Francis O'Neill
One evening, a lady who was new to my drawing class tentatively mentioned that her mother-in-law was writing a...
5 Masterpieces of Contemporary American Cinema: Beyond The Crucible
David Penner
In part one of this series, we discussed a number of films which encapsulate the depravity of an America...
Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward Curtin
On the Romantic poet John Keats’ tombstone in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome are these words, which he chose:...
Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
Edward Curtin
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past....
Treebeard’s Razor: The Ents Weigh in on AI Art and Writing
Jordan Henderson
There is still a lot of excitement about generative AI. Clearly then, not enough cold water has been thrown...
Wozzeck’s Nightmare
Todd Hayen
The Canadian Opera Company is just finishing up their run of one of the 20th Century’s most intriguing operas,...
The Cow That Lives Forever
Kit Knightly
The scientists had done it. They had solved world hunger, they had ended farming as we know it and...
At the Lost & Found
Edward Curtin
My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me...
How “Adolescence” offers us a peek inside the machine
Kit Knightly
I wrote about Adolescence – or rather the (manufactured) hype surrounding it – last week. I thought at the...
6 Masterpieces of Contemporary American Cinema: Neoliberalism through the Looking Glass
David Penner
As transpired in Weimar Germany, cataclysmic times invariably induce great suffering, yet they can also serve as inspiration for...
Why is EVERYBODY talking about Adolescence?
Kit Knightly
I'm not talking about Adolescence, I'm talking about the people talking about it. That might seem like a paper...
