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Stephen Marche

Stephen Marche is a novelist, columnist and enemy of boredom. He currently writes “A Thousand Words About Our Culture,” a monthly column for Esquire magazine, which in 2011 was a finalist for the ASME National Magazine Award for Commentary, in addition to opinion pieces for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Salon.com, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star.

He received a doctorate in Early Modern Drama in 2005 from the University of Toronto. Stephen Marche is a writer for Esquire, The New York Times and the Atlantic. Combining insights into culture, politics, technology and economics, he writes about the definitive crises and opportunities of our time.

Book Stephen

The Limits of Social Media

Drawing on the research for his well-received cover story for The Atlantic Magazine, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely, Stephen Marche describes how Web 2.0 is coming to its shuddering conclusion, how social media and networking will effect our souls and our society, and how to negotiate their terrain in order to live better and more fully with the technologies we have.

How Shakespeare Changed Everything

Shakespeare changed the world more than any other writer. He has been strangely omnipresent in history, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the introduction of starlings in North America. He is responsible in many ways for how we speak, how we think about youth and race, and even how we have sex. Find out how.

The Canadian Triumph

Drawing off his widely noted article for Bloomberg about the new Canadian prosperity, as seen on the Colbert Report and Rush Limbaugh, Marche describes how Canadian policies of “hardheaded socialism” have led to greater wealth in Canada than the United States. The American system is broken. The Canadian system is working.