In Search of Lost Time: Consent conversationsIf you’ve never heard of Laci Green, then, well, we kind of wonder where you’ve been. Green is a popular YouTube vlogger who describes herself as a “sex education activist,” based in the San Francisco Bay Area. And we’re bringing her to town. Let face it, folks: sex is and always will be cool. The […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The numinous everyday of Marilynne Robinson“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient,” wrote Marilynne Robinson, who has been called one of America’s finest living writers, despite having only published four novels in the last 35 years. Robinson’s novels are themselves good reasons to be alive. Using prose that is graceful and light, she […] Continue Reading |
The Functional Traveller: Turbulence before takeoffThis is the debut of a new column in which Camosun student Sera Down chronicles her adventures as a student in Japan. There is something to be said of the Type A personality. When it comes to preparing for an extended stint at university in a foreign country, these individuals excel. Their list of necessities […] Continue Reading |
25 Years ago in Nexus: September 9, 2015 issueDid you know we just turned 25? That’s right: the very first issue of Nexus, known back then as The Nexus, appeared on stands around Camosun in September 1990. So we’re relaunching the popular 20 Years Ago column as 25 Years Ago and starting back at the beginning… CCSS and CFS union begins: A news […] Continue Reading |
A Message from the Camosun College Student Society: September 9, 2015Welcome to a new semester at Camosun College! We look forward to meeting you this year! Students often ask what it is we do, so we thought this would be a great time to introduce ourselves. The purpose of the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is to make Camosun a community rather than just an […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: John Gardner on monsters and menAmerican novelist, essayist, poet, and critic John Gardner is perhaps best known for his novel Grendel, in which he constructs the world of Beowulf from the perspective of a sensitive, curious monster. Grendel, who has a love/hate relationship with his terrible mother and hangs out with a philosophizing dragon, gives us a unique chance to […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: The fantastic humanity of Bohumil Hrabal“I was always lucky in my bad luck,” quipped Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer famous for his lovable characters and raucous plots. In his novels, a wastepaper compacter quotes philosophy, a man narrates a whole book in a single sentence, and an innocent, clumsy young train-station attendant manages to blow up a Nazi munitions train, […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Umberto Eco and the power of learning“To survive, you must tell stories,” wrote Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar and novelist best known for mind-bending intellectual thrillers like The Name of the Rose. Eco, born in 1932, is a titan of 20th-century intellectual history and continues to make scholarly contributions to a boggling array of disciplines; his personal library includes some 50,000 […] Continue Reading |
Lit Matters: Sjón and the natural history of poetry“I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!” So declares a character in The Blue Fox, a novella by the Icelandic author known by his pen name, Sjón. The statement is typical of Sjón, who is as interested in the natural world as he is in the world of poetry and myth. Sjón […] Continue Reading |
The Prodigal Planeswalker: Let’s not forget TimmyIn a previous column I delved into the different player archetypes of Magic: The Gathering. I exalted the virtues of being a “Johnny” player and how my 60-card deck is an expression of my creativity, versus the “Spike” player with their in-it-to-win-it competitive nature. But it’s common to forget about “Timmy.” According to Magic: The […] Continue Reading |
