Northrop Frye

John Geddes: As Trump keeps going lower, out-of-fashion theorist Northrop Frye explains all the shrieking—and even shows a way past it to democratic renewal

The timeless literary criticism of Northrop Frye makes sense of the president’s odd, clichéd ‘tantrum style’ of public speaking

Making it Shakespeare’s perfect play for the 21st century

His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force

Canadian academic once targeted by RCMP Security Service because of his left-wing politics

I’ve never much liked the atmosphere surrounding royal visits. The anxiety many Canadians seem to feel about putting on a good show for titled foreigners and the press following them always strikes me as pathetic.

A plan to dismantle Northrop Frye founded Centre for Comparative literature has been shelved–for now

Proposal to shut down prestigious comparative literature program at U of T draws international rebuke

I’m arriving very late to the party over at Samara, where they took on the fun task of drawing up a list of Canada’s best political books. Some of the titles that made the cut are favourites of mine (Michael Bliss’s Right Honourable Men, Christina McCall’s Grits), while others (Charles Taylor’s Radical Tories, Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams) remind me that I’ve got some reading to do.