Skype Love
Are we drawn closer by being farther away?
Read MoreJuly/August 2008
Travel and adventure reading from Paul Watson, Michael Redhill, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jane Urquhart, Miriam Toews, and Pico Iyer; Jon Turk relives his kayak trip around the island nation of Vanuatu; Wendy Dennis reflects on her time living in Austin, Texas; Jill Frayne explores the beauty and danger of lightning…
Shelter from the Storm
Fathers and sons, architecture as refuge, and a family’s great loss
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Summer Time
A suggestion: It’s summer. Collapse into yourself. Remain where you are, with a good book in hand. That is, escape by staying put, on the couch or hammock, with your …
Read MoreAll the Way Home
I found myself in Austin, Texas
Read MoreSummertime, When the Visigoths Go Pillaging
There’s something intriguing about the currently received notion of summer as a season for escape. Once upon a very different time, if you were escaping in summer it was very …
Read MoreLoneliest Planet Europe
Travel and heartbreak, on the perfect budget
Read MoreThe Getaway
The operation is a success. Still covered in bandages and groggy from the drugs, they drive me on the smaller roads through the forest to the town with the single …
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Treasure Islands
Small pleasures and large truths in the South Pacific.
Read MoreYoung Leaders, Algonquin Park, 1978
Askinny, one-handed teenager constantly craving hashish is pretty much dead weight in a canoe. But Stephen Harper and the rest of the faux voyageurs couldn’t leave me behind. This was …
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