Readings

|| The late Farley Mowat
How We Failed Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat’s books represented the Canada that actually was: utterly unique in its crimes and triumphs alike, wilder than its modern reputation allows—a country we’ve turned away from, in literature and otherwise.

|| Gordon Ramsay calling out an order to the brigade de cuisine
The Devolution of the Modern Kitchen

How did the restaurant kitchen become the frantic, sweltering, tyrannical hellhole it is today? A history of the back-of-the-house and its rigorous hierarchies.

|| Jim Parrack and James Franco in As I Lay Dying
James Franco: The New Cassavetes?

As I Lay Dying is a good film; the problem is not the movie but our view of its maker. But James Franco is not the first actor-cum-director saddled with too white a grin.