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July/August 2010

Fiction by Lisa Moore, Linden MacIntyre, Rawi Hage, Heather O’Neill, Zsuzsi Gartner, Stephen Marche, Michael Winter, Miguel Syjuco, and Madeleine Thien; Chris Jones profiles the director of the National Gallery of Canada; André Alexis laments the decline of literary criticism…

Comics / July/August 2010

Green is Good

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

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July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Second, Less Popular, and Even Less Critically Successful Canadian Novel

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

The woman at the little insurance company. Georgetown, Ontario. The description of exquisite unsaids. The turn will not take place in an Applebee’s parking lot. The male foil will perish …

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Feature / July/August 2010

Where Ghana Went Right

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by John Schram

How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles

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Fiction / July/August 2010

Su-Na, Bird

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Madeleine Thien

The last of our kind came into the city tonight. Flat-footed, paws curled into fists, snow on their fur, I saw them scrambling down the toboggan hills on their bottoms …

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Fiction / July/August 2010

Stet

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Miguel Syjuco

“Come on, guy. You really want to be a frickin’ hoser, eh? ” “Quit being a parody. You already clean out your desk? If they lock us out you can ’ave …

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Fiction / July/August 2010

Billy Bennett

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Michael Winter

The Cottage Tavern, he was barred from there. He still got in but if they called the cops he drank at his own residence.

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Fiction / July/August 2010

A Few Acres of Snow

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

The man is spending his retirement writing a book tentatively entitled One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Paintings to See Before You Die

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Fiction / July/August 2010

Say the Names (after Al Purdy)

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Zsuzsi Gartner

American whiskey bar (no logo), Sudbury, Saturday night, August 32nd On Earth (Shampoo Planet), The Gutenberg Galaxy American woman, swamp angel, friend of my youth, “Raise a little hell, shake …

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Fiction / July/August 2010

Riff-Raff

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Heather O'Neill

I was nineteen and I lived in Montreal. I was in a horrible relationship with a boy named Leroy. He would cheat on me and be mean to me in …

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July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Life as a Canadian Writer

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

My first short story, “The Provincial Fair,” was rejected twenty-five times before it found its home in The Muskoka Review. From then on it’s all been pretty easy. I learned …

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