Chuck Klosterman’s Analysis of a Finished TV Show for a Defunct Website
The RRJ recommends you read Chuck Klosterman’s meditation on “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper, “A New Don,” written for the now defunct Grantland. The best thing …
Posts in category RRJ Recommends
The Award-Winning Canadian Documentary, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr
The RRJ recommends that you watch Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr released in 2015, and directed by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard. I noticed kudos given to …
Two Long Takes From Jimmy Breslin
The RRJ recommends you read “A Death In Emergency Room One” and “A Part of Cop’s Past Lies Dead” by the late Jimmy Breslin. When the …
Kathryn Schulz’s “When Things Go Missing”
The RRJ recommends you read “When Things Go Missing” by Kathryn Schulz, from the Feb. 13, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. At Toronto’s York Mills subway …
Alison Motluk’s “Uncommon Ancestry”
The best health stories are about empathy, about seeing clearly that all that separates you, the reader, from the story’s subject is an accident or …
Tracking the Illegal Tusk
The RRJ Recommends that you check out “Tracking the Illegal Tusk” in National Geographic by writer Bryan Christy and photographer Brent Stirton. Tracking a deadly …
It’s Time to Talk About Privilege
The RRJ recommends you check out “Let Them Eat Cake,” in Maisonneuve Magazine.
Left out of the Sharing Economy
The RRJ recommends you check out “When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.,” in Bloomberg News. In a …
The Inspiring and Fantastically Nerdy “The Unseen”
The RRJ recommends you check out “The Unseen” by Raffi Khatchadourian, from the June 20, 2016 issue of The New Yorker Most people I know …
The Seventh Art takes Canadian Film Criticism to New Heights
The RRJ recommends you check out the Seventh Art, a digital magazine with a unique take on Canadian film. Toronto has a lopsided film culture. TIFF, one …
