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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

This appeared in the July/August 2010 issue.

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July/August 2010 / Poetry

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

July 12, 2010January 27, 2022 - by David McGimpsey

The description / of exquisite unsaids. The turn will not / take place in an Applebee’s parking lot

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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, 2010January 27, 2022 - by Madeleine Thien

Against my face, the darkness was lustrous and cool. I went downstairs and sniffed

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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, 2010January 27, 2022 - by David McGimpsey

If you heard that segment of Canada Reads / where a guy recommends the novel version / of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun, that was me

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