Phoebe Maltz Bovy

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost IdealismSarah Wynn-Williams(Flatiron Books/Macmillan)It is not of memoir-worthy earth-shatteringness to have had a crummy job. Even those of us who've been lucky professionally had duds along the way. A boss from my early 20s berated the office for misdeeds entirely in her head, all part of the place her underlings held in some psychodrama. The more creative will use these experiences as inspiration for fiction.

1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Jewish professors are fleeing America for Canada. Wait, let me start over. Three American professors are departing one elite North American university (Yale) for another (University of Toronto). Two-historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore-are a married couple, and while both are esteemed profs, if we're talking about the rule of three-makes-a-trend, given the linkage in two of the three cases, I'm not sure this counts as such.

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy

If I tell you that I was never a hipster, this is not definitive, for the hipster thing to do would be to deny, deny, deny. What might be more convincing is that no one has ever thought I was. Yes, I was a recent college grad living in Brooklyn in the early 2000s. But it was the wrong part of Brooklyn (in and around Park Slope, not Williamsburg), and it was never my preferred aesthetic, and I have not once in my life heard of an indie band before they were cool. But I remember hipsters.

1 month ago | thecjn.ca | Phoebe Maltz Bovy