Articles by Charles Foran

Is it the end of an era for Jewish-American writing?

Brideshead Revisited and the Flyte to Canada

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

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

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

Commercial concupiscence consumes global culture

On the road with Noah Richler

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

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

Why can’t the Canadian dialect match others for sparkle?

The lingo springing from the computer keyboard is the way we write

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

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The Walrus
July/Aug 2009

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