Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
Read MoreJuly/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…
The Downsized Dream Car
On the Smart Car, a tiny automotive experiment that is not much bigger than a desk chair
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Cross-Border Shopping
Western curators are travelling the globe to find great art. Are they celebrating other visual cultures, or just hoping to enrich their own?
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Walden Pond Revisited
THADDEUS Holownia, an artist and professor of fine arts in Sackville, New Brunswick, has always been interested in the American naturalist Henry David Thoreau. From 1845 to 1847, Thoreau lived …
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The Art of the Bad Review
We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do
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Not Enough Horses
All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras
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You Go First
Carl the cremator lived next door—Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to the sun, the outdoors, anything at all that required getting off the couch. We would …
Read MoreQuestions Surrounding My Disappearance
Granted, things have not been well in the Canadian Film and Television Industry, and sure, even when things were good, or at least promising, people—your average viewer—didn’t read the credits. …
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