When I Went Out
A poem by Leonard Cohen
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Angry, eloquent, fragile, native artist Rebecca Belmore takes her new work to the Venice Biennale
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Has Childhood Gone AWOL?
Both picture books and young readers seem to be disappearing as a new target market takes shape
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If Things Happen for a Reason
This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …
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Among a Lot of Poems
Among a lot of poems There was one I could never quite bring to mind Except that I had composed it A while back Going down this street This street …
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Frontiers Of Flavour
A team of explorers follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo—only this time the quest is for the world’s most elusive sensations of taste
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Totally Genius
The smartest scientists in the world still haven’t solved a basic question: are minds like Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein born or made?
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The Peace Wager
As the killing in Darfur continues, the question arises once more: why can no one stop it?
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