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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 / Politics

Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times

July 12, 2004July 16, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”

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July/August 2004 / World

The Clown

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Alex Ulam

How to tell jokes that win friends and influence people in an ancient city in sub-Saharan Africa

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July/August 2004 / Technology

The Downsized Dream Car

July 12, 2004August 8, 2020 - by Larry Krotz

On the Smart Car, a tiny automotive experiment that is not much bigger than a desk chair

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A woman in Havana carries one of Alejandro Diaz’s “I ♥ Cuba” vinyl beach bags. The bags, which play with ideas about tourism and merchandising, were handed out at the Havana Biennial last fall.
July/August 2004

Cross-Border Shopping

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Blake Gopnik

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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July/August 2004 / Poetry

Cashew #4

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by M. NourbeSe Philip

firm-fleshed red pendulous breast nipple hardened into promise in seed curled green fetus the cashew hangs longs for the sharp white teeth of girls their tiny perfect tongues licking its …

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July/August 2004

Walden Pond Revisited

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Thaddeus Holownia

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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Books / July/August 2004

The Art of the Bad Review

July 12, 2004January 28, 2020 - by Andy Lamey

We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do

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Illustration by Sonny
Fiction / July/August 2004

Not Enough Horses

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Thomas King

All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras

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Illustration by Sonny
Fiction / July/August 2004

You Go First

July 12, 2004May 14, 2022 - by Camilla Gibb

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 …

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Fiction / July/August 2004

Questions Surrounding My Disappearance

July 12, 2004April 30, 2020 - by Edward Riche

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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