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July/August 2004

Fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Banana Yoshimoto, and Damon Galgut; poetry by Billy Collins, M. NourbeSe Philip, Di Brandt, and Marilyn Hacker; Bill Cameron argues that the unclarified legal status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is only hurting the cause of justice; Thaddeus Holownia photographs Walden Pond…

July/August 2004

The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Bill Cameron

Omar Khadr has been held incommunicado by the United States for almost two years. He could be a terrorist, but without due process we may never know

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July/August 2004

What Lies Beneath

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Maura Biava

“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The underwater world is like the world where dreams or art live. It’s not clear whether the …

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Photograph by Myles McCutcheon
Fiction / July/August 2004

Live Large

July 12, 2004June 15, 2020 - by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …

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July/August 2004 / Politics

Iran’s Great Game

July 12, 2004July 16, 2019 - by Hugh Graham

In 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran because he believed Iranian fundamentalists were plotting against him. Today, with increasing chaos on the ground, is Iraq still threatened by Iranian subversion?

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July/August 2004 / Technology

The Fixers

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Chris Wattie

On the ground with the Canadian Forces who maintain the air force’s fleet of aged Sea King maritime helicopters

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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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July/August 2004

China Beach, Then and Now

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Charles Foran

danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2004

A Moveable Feast

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Margaret Visser

The Mediterranean Diet, an essentially American myth, is at last coming to the Mediterranean region itself

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July/August 2004 / Society

Only Too Happy to Oblige

July 12, 2004August 7, 2021 - by Douglas Bell

Sucking up: a brief history

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July/August 2004 / Poetry

Lake Shore

July 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Billy Collins

“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …

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