Editor’s Note
My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …
Read MoreJanuary/February 2012
Daniel Baird ponders our appetite for retribution; Charlotte Gray profiles David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General; Don Gillmor reconstructs the invention of Waterloo as a high-tech powerhouse; Sara Angel studies Jack Chambers’ unfinished masterpiece; fiction by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer…
The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
When he was thirty-eight years old, he found himself in a stranger’s basement confronted by a calendar that had stopped dead on the day he was born. He became the …
Read MoreThere’s Where the American Helicopters Landed
Sixtyish now, Ling Quang’s hard look lifts from the gravel where we’ve stopped, the Honda’s kickstand staked to the mountain road’s bit of shoulder, our helmets left like laid eggs …
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Reign Maker
David Johnston, Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, possesses impeccable credentials and old-fashioned charm. Plus he is the government’s secret weapon in restoring the power of the monarchy
Read MoreTough Lessons
Reflections on a popular teacher with a dark secret. Do tighter sexual abuse laws help or hinder students?
Read MoreBeyond the Fringe
The Edmonton festival has launched a thousand careers—and has arguably corrupted a generation of performers
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