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Randy Boyagoda

Randy Boyagoda’s most recent novel is Original Prin. He is a professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he is also principal of St. Michael’s College and where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters.
A family with two parents and five children hold hands around a table. A bowl is in front of each person and the parents’ clasped hands are large in the foreground.
Fiction / July/August 2021

Little Sanctuary

June 25, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

The bus sped past abandoned houses, burned-out cars, skinny cows, masked and bandaged people running to the road at the sight of a vehicle, any vehicle, and others running away

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A group of pilgrims pose in front of the Canadian Martyrs Shrine, a large stone building with two turrets topped with crosses.
May 2020

Summer Service

April 22, 2020August 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

Every year, Sri Lankan Catholics from all over make a pilgrimage to Ontario’s cottage country

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Arts & Culture / Fiction / July/August 2019

Super Dads

June 19, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

A short story about what happens when three men visit a theme park where nearly everyone is stoned

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July/August 2009 / Politics

Spiritual Citizenship

July 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus

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Books / October/November 2008

The World According to Škvorecký

October 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past

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December 2007 / World

How to Get a Head

December 12, 2007July 10, 2017 - by Randy Boyagoda

The birth of a dough boy

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Books / December 2007

One Hundred Years at Forty

December 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world

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Photography by John Reeves
Books / July/August 2007

In Paris with Mavis Gallant, Writer

July 12, 2007December 15, 2021 - by Randy Boyagoda

Canada’s great exiled storyteller defies categories and remains an enigma

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Books / February 2007

Europe’s Original Sin

February 12, 2007October 16, 2019 - by Randy Boyagoda

After a bloody twentieth century, the continent may now be ready to come to terms with its dark history

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Books / June 2006

The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist

June 12, 2006April 14, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization

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