Editor’s Note

January/February 2012 / Media

January 17, 2012April 13, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

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 …

January/February 2012 / Poetry

There’s Where the American Helicopters Landed

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by David O'Meara

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 …

January/February 2012 / Poetry

The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness

January 12, 2012July 20, 2017 - by Damian Rogers

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 …

January/February 2012

Gushing

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

This appeared in the January/February 2012 issue.

January/February 2012

Reign Maker

January 12, 2012January 22, 2021 - by Charlotte Gray

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

January/February 2012

The Invention of Waterloo

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

Canada’s Technology Triangle has spawned more than 450 high-tech companies, including BlackBerry pioneer Research in Motion. But it didn’t just happen: an upstart university had the brains to embrace mathematics

Fiction / January/February 2012

Corpse

January 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Contorted into downward dog, legs slightly bent, soles on the floor, Maura said, “You have to imagine it’s like a yoni—a great universal twat.” And then she added, “You know? ” …