Stan Persky teaches philosophy at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He’s the author of many books, including Buddy’s: Meditations on Desire and Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). His most recent book is Post-Communist Stories: About Cities, Politics, Desires (Cormorant, 2014).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment
Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015....
Say Something: Chomsky on Language
A review of a collection of Noam Chomsky’s lectures on language....
The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis
Kipnis, a humorous feminist and feminist humorist, employs irony, sarcasm, satire, and a general sense of levity in her discussions of gender, feminism, and sexuality....
Self, with or without Selfies
A self is not a physical object. There isn't a little homunculus inside you or a mini-person sitting inside the mini-cab of a mini-crane moving your limbs....
Dirty Laundry
A tell all that tells little....
Cliffhanger
Reading may be dead, but the question whether it is lives on....
Re-re-reading Gore Vidal: A First Anniversary Requiem
A remembrance of what he really stood for....
Why Did Alt Lit Cross the Road?
Lin’s affectless, grinning young people are oddly reassuring....
“The candles will blow themselves out”: The Richard Brautigan Saga
BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING about William (“Gatz”) Hjortsberg’s massive biography of writer Richard Brautigan, Jubilee Hitchhiker, I should probably first ...
The Love That Dared to Write Its Name
"1948 was a sort of annus 'mahr-velous,' if not mirabilis, for public discussion of homosexuality."...
