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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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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My Life as a Canadian Writer
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 …
Read MoreWriting Johannesburg
As the World Cup arrives, South African authors are finding new ways to document their country’s biggest city
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Say the Names (after Al Purdy)
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 …
Read MoreHistory in Play
The Richard iii Society of Canada agitates for a maligned king
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