Posts Tagged ‘Lady Franklin’s Revenge’
Surely #MeToo should be all over The Wife, The Ghost Brush, Colette, and Lady Franklin?
So we caught the hit film The Wife last night. The movie, based on a novel by Meg Wolitzer, features a tour-de-force performance by Glenn Close. But what struck me is that you can change the culture, the time period, the mode of expression . . . yet the story remains the same. — In…
Read MoreMacSkimming and Winter lead the charge?
Well, geez, already I like the Book Section in tomorrow’s Globe and Mail and the paper’s not on my doorstep yet. First we discover Roy MacSkimming writing about How the Scots Invented Canada: “There’s indeed much fun here, as well as instruction (Scots always like that), and your name doesn’t have to begin with Mc…
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