Robert P. Levin

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BSR Contributor Since June 26, 2010

Robert P. Levin is an editor with the Globe & Mail, Canada's national newspaper. He lives in Toronto.

Robert P. Levin was born and raised in Philadelphia but has lived in Toronto for nearly a quarter century now. He's an editor at The Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper). Previously he was executive editor of Maclean's (Canada's national newsmagazine) and a Newsweek writer in New York before that. He's long been known as Bob Levin but has assumed the byline of Robert P. Levin to avoid confusion with another BSR contributor named Bob Levin, who's a lawyer in Berkeley, California.

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Farewell, old Newsweek

When newsmags ruled the world: The Newsweek I remember

I don't know whether print is dead. I just know the famous magazine that informed my world as a kid, and then gave me a wondrous break into big-time journalism, is now but a digital shadow.

Robert P. Levin

Oct 23, 2012 Essays 4 minute read

The Zen of getting canned

Losing a job isn't cancer (but then, what is?)

Surely surviving cancer, three different times, would throw everything else in life into perspective, I thought. Then I got fired.

Robert P. Levin

Aug 19, 2011 Essays 4 minute read

Terry Fox didn't quite make it acrosss Canada.

What's cancer really like?

The romancing of cancer (by one who's been there)

Take it from one who knows from experience: We do cancer patients a disservice if we see the fight but not the rage, the fear, the full storm of emotions that strikes mortals facing their own mortality.

Robert P. Levin

Jun 28, 2011 Essays 5 minute read

Whites fled their big Wynnefield houses... for this?

Fear and integration in Wynnefield, c. 1970

You've got to be carefully taught: Wynnefield before the whites fled

To a kid growing up there, Wynnefield was a far more interesting, vital neighborhood in the years after integration and before our parents' panic ended that all too brief era.

Robert P. Levin

Jun 26, 2010 Essays 4 minute read