The New Word Order
Illustration by Julie Morstad hong kong—Imagine this seating chart for a dinner at a literary festival in Hong Kong. A Chinese-American novelist sits next to an English author of Indian …
Read MoreJuly/August 2005
Murray Dobbin asks if Jim Harris can bring the Green Party to the mainstream; love letters by Margaret Atwood, David Bezmozgis, Leonard Cohen, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem, MG Vassanji, and Juli Zeh; fiction by Wayne Johnson, Helen Humphreys, Robin Collyer, Yiorgos Skabardonis, and Richard Hahn…
My Living Media Will
Illustration by Christopher Hutsul In the event that my health deteriorates to the point where extreme measures are required to sustain life and keep me telegenic, I hereby request that …
Read MoreMy Tennis Game
Illustration by Clayton Hanmer My tennis game was raised by wolves. Abandoned as an infant, it sat in a dark part of the forest for three days. It cried helplessly …
Read MoreThe Punk Who Would Be King
Illustration by Julie Doucet stratford—In 2001, I took a carload of people to a reading by Chris Rickett, infamous resident and future political operator of Stratford, Ontario. We had dinner …
Read MoreMoving Back to Chernobyl
Illustration by Trudie Cheng chernobyl—Nineteen years after the biggest nuclear disaster in history spewed radioactive material across Europe, people are slowly moving back to Ukraine’s ground zero. Why? The region …
Read MoreArsenal of Illusion
Hollywood know-how is helping to create new kinds of military weapons that target the brain — but not with a bullet
Read MoreGreen Party Blues
Can Jim Harris rescue the environment by mainstreaming the Greens?
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Franklin’s Library
The sailor looks up from the book. He looks up, out of the oily coin of candlelight lying on the page. He can still hear the shore crowd at Greenhithe, …
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