Generation WWW
The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is delivered in digestible chunks, is salacious, gossipy, and supported …
Read MoreJuly/August 2007
Edward Burtynsky warns that shortsighted development is decimating Canada’s wildernesses; Bruce Livesey doubts the generosity of today’s super-rich class; Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers explain the difficulty of reconciling Canada’s goals in Afghanistan; fiction by Nadia Kalman, Marni Jackson, Camilla Gibb, and Jim Garrard…
The Counterpart
Aleksey Alexandrovich Smoletkin—the former Gorky Professor of Arts and Letters at Leningrad State, the father of a twelve-year-old daughter in ribbons and brown uniform in Moscow, the destroyer of a …
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The Principles of Exile
My mother has sent me out to Saint-Denis by Métro, because Alsan, the cleaner at her office, has told her that the best halloumi is to be found floating in …
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Bob Dylan Goes Tubing
One morning we came back from town to find a strange car parked under the white pines beside our cottage. An old Citroën, the kind where the chassis goes up …
Read MoreBig Ticket
The Characters Dave… tow truck operator Annie… realtor Billy… biker Early evening. A grimy auto-pound office—in a trailer. Ambient light through barred windows. Traffic noise from expressway overhead. City sounds, …
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