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…
On 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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Decomposing Bodies
What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?
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Spiritual Citizenship
The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus
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At The Gastown Riot
Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past
Read MoreSibling Rivalry Redux
As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up
Read MoreThe True Sorrows of Calamity Jane
The night Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head at a Black Hills poker table by the coward Jack McCall, my mother indeed grabbed a meat cleaver …
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Real Estate
The admittedly pretty rundown townhouse would sell better if the place could be shown and delivered essentially vacant. That had been the notion. The building’s good bones would be made …
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