The Art of the Bad Review
We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do
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Summer Plum (Winter Version)
Iwas about seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for fellowship group at the church, and on the table there was an open bag of …
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An African Sermon
Douglas would think, much later, of questions he should have asked. He didn’t know, for example, how Mr. Sagatwa had left Rwanda, how he had come down to South Africa. But in that moment it didn’t seem to matter
Read MoreQuestions Surrounding My Disappearance
Granted, things have not been well in the Canadian Film and Television Industry, and sure, even when things were good, or at least promising, people—your average viewer—didn’t read the credits. …
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Not Enough Horses
All in all, it had been a fine wedding. Enough to eat, enough to drink. Plenty of cameras
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Walden Pond Revisited
THADDEUS Holownia, an artist and professor of fine arts in Sackville, New Brunswick, has always been interested in the American naturalist Henry David Thoreau. From 1845 to 1847, Thoreau lived …
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You Go First
Carl the cremator lived next door—Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to the sun, the outdoors, anything at all that required getting off the couch. We would …
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Gained in Translation
Most novelists who are fortunate enough to have had their novels translated into other languages are also fortunate that they are unable to read those languages. I have a closet …
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