Month: September 2020

László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer hat remains to fill the place of God, when God has been exiled and history and progress have also proved undeserving of trust?” asks László Földényi in the preface to his collection of essays, the wonderfully titled Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel In Siberia And Bursts Into Tears. Földényi is a professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in … Tibor Fischer-Intellectual Red BullRead more

LAST NOVEMBER, I stopped writing a regular column on art and culture for the Globe and Mail, my job for almost twenty years. Nobody noticed. I did not receive a single reader’s letter. I had a polite message from my section editor. He was sorry things didn’t work out and hoped we could stay in touch. The note contained no sense of symbolic occasion. I knew what I did was no longer important, either to the … Russell Smith – How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read OnlineRead more