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David Bezmozgis

David Bezmozgis is the director of the Humber School for Writers. His latest book, Immigrant City, was released in March 2019.
Illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
April 2019 / Fiction

Childhood

March 26, 2019March 27, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

Mark didn’t know what to make of his son—he didn’t seem like an “ordinary” kid

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Photograph of David Bezmozgis
First Person

Who Gets to Decide What Being a Canadian Means?

May 7, 2018November 12, 2019 - by David Bezmozgis

I moved here when I was six. The experience has always left me wondering where anybody belongs

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Book jacket courtesy of HarperCollins Canada
December 2014 / Fiction

The Betrayers

November 4, 2014April 13, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

A thousand kilometers away, while the next great drama of his life was unfolding and God was banging His gavel to shake the Judaean hills, Baruch Kotler sat in the …

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April 2011 / Fiction

Rome, 1978

April 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

Samuil krasnansky looked out his window and saw Italian militia with their submachine guns lined up the length of the platform. He did not like being under foreign guard, but …

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Film / July/August 2004

Dubbing, Italian-Style

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages

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Artwork by Shary Boyle
Fiction / November/December 2003

Choynski

November 12, 2003April 29, 2020 - by David Bezmozgis

The young palliative-care doctor, a nice Jewish guy in glasses, prodded around my grandmother’s stomach and explained that the swelling wasn’t only a result of fluid. Some of it was …

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