Over the last few days, instead of doom-scrolling the news each morning, I have been reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. The book has a reputation for being grotesque, absurd and nonsensical, a reputation partly deserved; but that’s the point, its reputation underscores its sheer exuberance, black humour and mind-bending narration, narration which jumps, with dizzyingContinue reading “Gravity’s Rainbow: an oasis of sense in a non-sensical world”
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Carney ignores his own advice, or how to fuel discontent
When one looks back, in a few months or years, and attempts to understand how Carney’s liberal government so utterly failed, the Air Canada strike will probably be part of the story. After slashing the carbon tax — against the well thought-through but manifestly vacuous arguments set out in his book — Carney is nowContinue reading “Carney ignores his own advice, or how to fuel discontent”
Richard Shearmur 