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Month: October 2007
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The Chinese Dust Bowl
In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history
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Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)
Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce gull. I know the creature …
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Twelve Angry Maids
Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage
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Wire Transfer
David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV
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The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler
More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen
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The Eyes Have It
Just off the trail among the quills of the birches the porcupine had settled, comfortably into its final business. It looked like a fur hat abandoned in the snow melt …
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The Walrus Reads
New books of note
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