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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…

July/August 2009

The Whole Schmier

July 20, 2009April 13, 2020 - by Jason Sherman
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Books / July/August 2009

On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

July 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Nick Mount

Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty

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July/August 2009 / Poetry

Louis Slotin You Will Not Turn Forty (after Ted Hughes)

July 12, 2009June 21, 2017 - by Michael Lista

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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Environment / July/August 2009

Decomposing Bodies

July 12, 2009May 30, 2022 - by James Glave

What’s the greenest way to dispose of human remains?

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Illustration by Sam Weber
Fiction / July/August 2009

The Crow Procedure

July 12, 2009June 8, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

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July/August 2009 / Politics

Spiritual Citizenship

July 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Randy Boyagoda

The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus

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Photograph courtesy David Zwirner, New York
Arts & Culture / July/August 2009

At The Gastown Riot

July 12, 2009January 23, 2020 - by Leigh Kamping-Carder

Vancouver artist Stan Douglas reimagines a neighbourhood’s troubled past

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July/August 2009

Sibling Rivalry Redux

July 12, 2009July 6, 2017 - by Georgie Binks

As parents grow old, the children who care for them don’t always grow up

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Fiction / July/August 2009

The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane

July 12, 2009November 22, 2022 - by Joseph Boyden

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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Illustration by Tom Gauld
Fiction / July/August 2009

Real Estate

July 12, 2009June 15, 2020 - by Rivka Galchen

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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