Much and Many: A companion piece
Much and many are easy to confuse, especially for language learners coming from European languages like French, German, Spanish, and Italian. The difference can cause even the most advanced learner...
Return of the Living Covid
We’ve all been watching the U.S. Presidential Election race with a quality of attention that can only be compared to—in the most clichéd terms—watching a train wreck. Perhaps this week,...
Rough and Ready Guide to Simple Past and Present Perfect
This post is designed to give you some easy to remember tools when it comes to using the Present Perfect Tense and the Simple Past, which are easily confused by...
The Mystery of Elena Ferrante
Even if you have never read a word of Elena Ferrante, you might be forgiven for being a bit sick of her. In 2015, the final novel of her Neapolitan...
A Fly Creates Buzz before American Elections
The American election continued to dominate the news in North America, and, for that matter, across much of the world. In the wake of the drama around President Trump’s positive...
Québec goes red and Trump goes negative before testing positive.
It’s difficult to choose just one story from this past week to highlight, as so much has happened since last Sunday. This week I’ll highlight two major stories; in doing...
Sleeping Beauty: Susanna Clarke Returns
In 2004, a massive tome hit bookstores across Western Europe and North America. Weighing in at 900+ pages, and complete with 200 long and exhaustively-detailed footnotes, some readers might have...
The American West is on Fire
This past week much of North America—and even the world—turned its attention to the American West, where massive forest fires continued to burn simultaneously. Drought-like conditions across the American West,...
Thanks to a scandal, Canada gets a historic first.
The WE scandal has been steadily dripping in the background of Canadian and North American news for some weeks. It’s easy to understand why we might lose sight of it:...
Beirut Explodes
On Tuesday, August 4th, two massive explosions rocked the Lebanese port-city of Beirut. The scale of human life lost and permanently altered is almost impossible to imagine. Equally [su_tooltip style="dark"...