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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…

July/August 2010 / Poetry

My Canadian Novel

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

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 …

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Fiction / July/August 2010

The Kit Bag

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Linden MacIntyre

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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Fiction / July/August 2010

Waiting for God

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Rawi Hage

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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Fiction / July/August 2010

Mask

July 12, 2010April 17, 2020 - by Lisa Moore

We are sitting at a sidewalk table in the stream of tourists. They are tanned or burnt and have the slow swagger of people on holiday, the slap of flip-flops. …

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July/August 2010

Saneman

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Adam Sternbergh

In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Michael Cera is the ultimate Canadian superhero

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Illustration by Neil Doshi
Arts & Culture / July/August 2010

The Long Decline

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by André Alexis

Canada used to have a vibrant critical culture. What happened?

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July/August 2010

Big Game Hunter

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Jones

Battered by controversy, the director of the National Gallery of Canada goes art shopping in Holland

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July/August 2010

Meditation at 7,500 RPM

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Timothy Taylor

The peculiar Zen of race car driving

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July/August 2010 / Society

Firewater

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Christine Sismondo

Does banning alcohol in First Nations communities address the real cause of problem drinking?

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July/August 2010 / Society

Up, Up, and Away

July 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

Artists who want to make it go to Europe or the States. The others head north to Dawson City

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