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July/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…

Fiction / July/August 2005

My Living Media Will

July 12, 2005May 7, 2020 - by Marni Jackson

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 those entrusted with my …

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July/August 2005 / Sports

My Tennis Game

July 12, 2005May 7, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

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 and was finally discovered …

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July/August 2005 / Society

The Punk Who Would Be King

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Hal Niedziecki

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 at a friend’s house—venison …

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July/August 2005 / World

Moving Back to Chernobyl

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Larry Frolick

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 appears bucolic compared to …

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July/August 2005 / Society

The New Word Order

July 12, 2005May 7, 2020 - by Charles Foran

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 extraction. To his right, …

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July/August 2005 / Politics

The Dictator Debt Catch

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Paul Webster

A US-brokered deal to forgive billions in Iraqi debt is causing other countries to say “me too,” even as some Iraqis wish they’d said “no thanks.”

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July/August 2005 / Poetry

The Twentieth Time

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Sheldon Zitner

Some say it looks like rain, some say they believe in God, some say they are going to Winnipeg. The polling numbers are accurate to within plus or minus 4.2%, …

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Fiction / July/August 2005

Seven Love Letters

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by The Walrus

“Lubyanka, 2 September 1918” by David Bezmozgis My dear Mika, Though you have made it clear that you do not care for me, my heart nevertheless insists that I address …

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Illustration by Christopher Hutsul
Fiction / July/August 2005

Catechism

July 12, 2005June 15, 2020 - by Wayne Johnston

Why did he come to the city? He was not yet ready to return to the one where his wife was waiting for him. He could never return to the …

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Illustration by Michelangelo Iaffaldano
Fiction / July/August 2005

Franklin’s Library

July 12, 2005May 6, 2020 - by Helen Humphreys

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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