Andrew Potter

I’m a late discoverer of the ridiculous genius of Nabokov. I read Lolita in university, and watched the film a bunch of times, but...

Quebec’s slow but steady cultural takeover of Manhattan nears completion. The New Yorker this week devotes four pages to...

With 2012, Roland Emmerich has forgotten Stalin’s first rule of disaster filmmaking: A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths...

From The New York Times, "Investigators study tangle of clues on Fort Hood Suspect" , November 15 2009: **** From Saturday Night...

1. Elizabeth Kolbert trashes Superfreakonomics: 2. Tracey Emin can’t figure ou t why she isn’t more popular in America: 3. Putin...

From the Nanosphere, the latest poll has it 38-28.8-17.9-9.3-5.9. The nine-point spread is in line with where the polls seem to...

Oh look -- Gawker has picked up on the story of John Baird’s cat.

Here are two truths about Martin Heidegger: 1. He is one of the most revered figures in the 20th century philosophical canon 2. He...

UPDATE: The tables are now up at the IRPP *** Free-agent pollster Nik Nanos has a new study out with the IRPP, looking at...

I’m 253 pages into Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book Too Big To Fail. It’s the first book I’ve read on the financial crisis, and I suspect...