Colby Cosh on the high-voltage power—and the graven tragic consequences—of the image
Tag Archives: magazines
Taking the shine off those gold-plated pensions
Maclean’s editors on the changes to MP’s pensions; and on the death of Newsweek
Advice from a former Cosmo editor: how to make an impression at the office
No guts, no glory for working girls
Why I’m sick of alumni magazines
The requests for money never cease
Where’s the sizzle in Canada’s non-fiction?
The Charles Taylor Prize always brings out many very good writers. It rarely takes my breath away.
Le castor fait tout
I wonder if any of the other Macbloggers have been straining at their imaginations trying to find a PG-rated way to talk about the name change over at Canada’s second-oldest magazine. It took me a while to remember that General Semantics has an answer for this. So: The Beaver, now to become Canada’s History, was named in 1920 for what we’ll call beaver1, the rodent Castor canadensis. The periodical was obliged to make the change because of jokes about and search-engine confusion with beaver2, a colloquialism for an anatomical neighbourhood in the human female.
These days the devil recycles Prada
The elitist Anna Wintour of this movie wouldn’t have been caught dead in Queens
So sexy it hurts
Women’s magazines have long had a bad rap as the source of female insecurity, what with all those images of beautiful models. (Or articles suggesting all kinds of unbeautiful things women do, like make orgasm faces, but that’s another matter.)
Weekly newsmagazine in freefall
And once again, it’s not us.
Magazine shuts down all of its blogs
Don’t worry. It’s not us.