Has Childhood Gone AWOL?
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape
Read MoreJune 2005
Allan Gregg heralds a return to the politics of ideas; Ray Conlogue asks whether Canada will change radical Islam; Nelson Handel travels the frontiers of flavour; Don Gillmor makes a case for Kidlit; Li Robbins unpacks world music; fiction by Sara O’Leary…
To Catch a Fish
The perfect escape is just a gasoline slick away for the dedicated urban angler
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The Kurdish New Wave
diyarbakir—Every weekday morning, Hekim Aydin hops on board a beat-up moped and rides to Diyarbakir city hall. He spends his days there archiving historical documents, occasionally getting to shoot a …
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Among a Lot of Poems
Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …
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The Peace Wager
As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?
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Totally Genius
The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?
Read MoreTrauma Mama
Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale
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Frontiers Of Flavour
A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste
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Desperately Seeking Ideas
Politics has been reduced to a guessing game about what voters want. Here’s a thought: how about an election fought on real issues
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