The Ones We Carry With Us
Here’s the thing I now know about dying. It looks like almost anything else
Read MoreJuly/August 2020
Our summer reading issue for the times we’re living in.
Lord Mayor Magpie
There he waltzes, / this debonair / line dancer in mid-air
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Lottery Poetry
No business felt more ridiculous, in those spring days of the pandemic, than fortune-telling did
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The Peace Lily
To say the peace lily died / would be an understatement.
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Remembering the Air India Bombing
Thirty-five years later, few Canadians seem to acknowledge the largest terrorist attack in their country’s history
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Dancing Bear
In this memoir, a child and his family leave Lebanon for Athens
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What Does It Take to Become a Wine Superpower?
On British Columbia’s bid to be the Napa Valley of the North
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How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience
Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?
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If a Book Is Published in a Pandemic, Will Anyone Read It?
We already undervalue our artists. COVID-19 has only made it worse
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