Articles

Retro fatigue

January 7th, 2012

Getting tired of nostalgia?

Read column at The Globe and Mail


Riffs – The Year in Movies

December 6th, 2011

What do Adam Sandler and Pieter Bruegel have in common? They both get my attention (lucky fellows) in the amazing Year in Movies issue of the New York Times Magazine. Enjoy my mini-essays and this crowd of great culture writers at The New York Times Magazine.


The trouble with ‘closure’

December 3rd, 2011

Looking for closure in all the wrong places

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The female sport problem

November 10th, 2011

Do female athletes have to wear mini-skirts to be taken seriously?

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Cupcake: Delicious. Evil. Either. Both.

October 29th, 2011

Will the cupcake ever go away?

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You so tiny!

October 27th, 2011

Why being called ‘tiny’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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Baby men

October 10th, 2011

What Ikea’s ‘Manland’ says about male maturity

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Wives tale

September 19th, 2011

Can a modern woman be a wife?

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Pinkification

August 22nd, 2011

What women don’t want: pink beer, pink cars, dubious pink corporate philanthropy…

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The kids are not all right

July 19th, 2011

Leave fashion to the adults, please — no teen muses

Read column at the Globe and Mail