July/August 2009
Fiction by Stephen Marche, Lee Henderson, Rivka Galchen, and Joseph Boyden; John Lorinc examines the recovery efforts of Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney; Christopher Frey describes the rise of Pentecostalism in Africa; Nick Fraser analyzes the value of European unity…
Spiritual Citizenship
The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus
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Niagara Falls, 1840
How academics found the first photograph to be taken in Canada
Read MoreHead and Heart
Director Robert Carsen brings a Canadian temperament to the world’s great opera houses
Read MoreOn Hugh MacLennan’s Watch
Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty
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Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)
At your fortieth birthday, on a moonlit beach, One of your guests is late. You save a plate. A place is clean and set Amid the after–dinner mess. Why are …
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The Merchant Banker
Is the recession really over? A profile of Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney
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Decomposing Bodies
What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?
Read MoreSibling Rivalry Redux
As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up
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At The Gastown Riot
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past
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