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July/August 2020

Our summer reading issue for the times we’re living in.

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Fiction / July/August 2020

The Ones We Carry With Us

July 20, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Sara O'Leary

Here’s the thing I now know about dying. It looks like almost anything else

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A photo of the poet, John Barton, who is wearing a collared shirt and resting his chin in his hand. He is smiling at the camera and has a moustache and round glasses.
July/August 2020 / Poetry

School of Xerez Fino

July 17, 2020 - by John Barton

Mirror balls, matches, condoms, sweat-raw limbs / Shedding shirts, shedding disco

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A black-and-white photo of the poet, Eric Ormsby, who is a white-haired man wearing glasses and a collared shirt. The background is blue.
July/August 2020 / Poetry

Lord Mayor Magpie

July 10, 2020 - by Eric Ormsby

There he waltzes, / this debonair / line dancer in mid-air

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Fiction / July/August 2020

Lottery Poetry

July 9, 2020July 10, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

No business felt more ridiculous, in those spring days of the pandemic, than fortune-telling did

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July/August 2020 / Poetry

The Peace Lily

July 3, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

To say the peace lily died / would be an understatement.

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July/August 2020 / Society

Remembering the Air India Bombing

June 23, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Jordan Michael Smith

Thirty-five years later, few Canadians seem to acknowledge the largest terrorist attack in their country’s history

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July/August 2020 / Memoir

Dancing Bear

June 18, 2020December 8, 2020 - by Dimitri Nasrallah

In this memoir, a child and his family leave Lebanon for Athens

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Business / July/August 2020

What Does It Take to Become a Wine Superpower?

June 16, 2020July 16, 2020 - by Ellen Himelfarb

On British Columbia’s bid to be the Napa Valley of the North

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2020

How Not to Write a Book about a Minority Experience

June 4, 2020August 10, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

Publishers increasingly lean on outside experts to vet books for cultural insensitivity. Is it working?

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July/August 2020

If a Book Is Published in a Pandemic, Will Anyone Read It?

May 21, 2020August 14, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

We already undervalue our artists. COVID-19 has only made it worse

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