Anna-Liza Kozma
Anna-Liza Kozma is a Visiting Fellow at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, focusing on the interface between media, literature and theology.
Bio last updated November 25th, 2019.
Articles by Anna-Liza Kozma
A Clue From Settlers of Catan
By Anna-Liza Kozma
November 22, 2019
In their new book, Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life, Joan Moriarity and Jonathan Kay challenge the monopoly video games have on our attention spans. Reviewer Anna-Liza Kozma scrabbles to pass go in the new golden era of tabletop risk-taking.
"Games, at their best, have the power to create a special space, a world within a world," argues Moriarity, who writes with the real life cred of teaching the rules of dozens of games to customers in Toronto's "Snakes and Lattes", which bills itself as North America's first board game cafe Kay, who as well as playing family board games with his kids attends international summits to play his favourite game, Advanced Squad Leader, points out that U.S This exploration into the tension between contest and connection animates the unusual collection of 15 essays in Your Move - What Board Games Teach Us About Life, co-written by Canadian journalist, Jonathan Kay and long-time gamer, Joan Moriarity Jonathan Kay explains how his favourite game, Advanced Squad Leader, a complex war reenactment game, "provides players with a path to self-improvement so long as you are alive to the lessons of the game board
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Steadfast Acts of Ordinary Faith
Anna-Liza Kozma
December 1, 2013
Journalist Rod Dreher discovered how good it was to go home again. CBC producer Anna-Liza Kozma finds out why.
The book is subtitled A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life, and the good life here is the one lived out quietly by Dreher's sister, Ruthie Leming, in the sleepy riverside town of St That tug of Ruthie's death on the Louisiana boyhood threads of family and faith and community ...