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Adrian Forrow

Adrian Forrow (@AdrianForrow) has contributed to The New Yorker, and Bloomberg View.
Illustration by Adrian Forrow
April 2017 / Justice

No Job, No Car, No Bank Account: What It’s like to Be Stateless in Canada

March 20, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

Residents who aren’t citizens of any country are trapped in a Catch-22 world

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Illustration by Adrian Forrow
January/February 2016 / Memoir

Mon Ami, Vice

December 11, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

Happiness is a sold gun

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Woman holding dead flowers
March 2015 / Memoir

After Two Decades on Antidepressants, Who Am I?

February 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

I was diagnosed with a mental illness at age eleven and joined one of the first generations to grow up on prescription pills

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Screw driver gadget
January/February 2014 / Technology

The Idea Maker

February 4, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

How a freethinker sold investors on thought-controlled computing

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A person holding a surf board while riding a motorcycle
Arts & Culture / January/February 2014

CanCom

January 29, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

Revisiting the golden age of Canadian comics

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A person holding a surf board while riding a motorcycle
January/February 2014

The Last 35 mm Picture Show

January 21, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

A small-town Saskatchewan cinema goes digital

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Cigarettes, an ash tray, sunglasses, a soda can and a shot glass
January/February 2014 / Poetry

SN1987AZT

January 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

A common year beginning in my memory. By March, in dark pools beneath Lake Erie And in the zinc mines of Kamioka Mining & Smelting Company, Gifu Prefecture, Neutrinos from …

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Books / January/February 2014

Her Big Break

December 19, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

The New Yorker says yes to Alice Munro

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Illustration by Adrian Forrow
January/February 2014 / Politics

Editor’s Note

December 9, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Adrian Forrow

In 1982, with the global economy in recession, Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau established a Royal Commission, chaired by former finance minister Donald Macdonald, to look into remedies. The Macdonald …

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