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 MoreJuly/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…
The 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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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 …
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The Long Decline
Canada used to have a vibrant critical culture. What happened?
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Big Game Hunter
Battered by controversy, the director of the National Gallery of Canada goes art shopping in Holland
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Meditation at 7,500 RPM
The peculiar Zen of race car driving
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Up, Up, and Away
Artists who want to make it go to Europe or the States. The others head north to Dawson City
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