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, …
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…
A Civilizing Influence
Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West
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Torrential Reign
A mega file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent is making the music piracy of yesteryear look like petty theft
Read MoreFictional Houses
During the 1950s and 1960s, “transformer houses” were built in quiet suburban neighbourhoods across Canada. Necessary illusions, these normal-looking houses were, in fact, electrical substations owned by hydro companies and …
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When I Went Out
A poem by Leonard Cohen
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