ANN’S MUSINGS—My Penchant for Portugal
I confess that I have not yet been to Portugal but have been for some time under its sway. Classical […]
Convivium
Convivium, Journal, Toronto Pursuits
GETTING TO KNOW YOU—Toronto Pursuits Leader Zoë Eisenman
Zoë comes to us from Chicago and is greatly looking forward to coming to Toronto for the first time to
Savoir-Faire in the First Chapter of The Ambassadors
A guest blog post by Jonathan Rowan She waited for him in the garden . . . drawing on
Countdown to Portugal: Five Reasons Why the Time to Go Is Now
We hope you’ll join us for Portugal: Poised Between Proud Tradition and Global Modernity in October 2016. There are so
The Mythic and Intimate in the American West
A guest blog post by Mark Cwik I’ve been reading quite a bit in the last few months about the
Exile and Identity in Pnin and The Book of Negroes
A guest post by Nella Cotrupi The themes of human displacement and migration dominate our media today. The dramatic photos
Ancient Greece, a World of Colour and Beauty
A guest blog post by Zoë Eisenman [Editor’s note: Zoë will be leading The Fall of the House of Oedipus
GUEST BLOG—Death in Venice: What Price Metamorphosis? by Tom Jones
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human
GUEST BLOG—East Meets West; West Embraces East by Sean Forester
The Japanese prints, so the story goes, had first arrived in Paris in the 1850s as packaging protecting ceramics. The
GUEST BLOG—Beauty’s Vivifying Force by Betty Ann Jordan
“Beauty comes to us, with no work of our own; then leaves us prepared to undergo a giant labour.” —
