Green is Good
This appeared in the July/August 2010 issue.
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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…
My Second, Less Popular, and Even Less Critically Successful Canadian Novel
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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Where Ghana Went Right
How one African country emerged intact from its post-colonial struggles
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The Long Decline
Canada used to have a vibrant critical culture. What happened?
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Waiting for God
It didn’t rain that day, and the sky was blue, the snow was scarce, and the people were all wrapped in flags and hats that shone with colours. After the …
Read MoreThe Kit Bag
In later years, he’d recall a lurid halo in the sky as the setting sun suffused the clouds and looming trees with lavender. His dog barked briefly to announce a …
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My Canadian Novel
The Newfoundland orphange playground and asleep in the stiff nunnery’s bed, the train was stalled at Portage and Main— “Just around then my marriage fell apart.” The pea garden was …
Read MoreThe Enemy Inside
Is the Canadian military prepared for the mental health consequences of our deadliest conflict since the Korean War?
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