China Beach, Then and Now
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …
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On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
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Cross-Border Shopping
Western curators are travelling the globe to find great art. Are they celebrating other visual cultures, or just hoping to enrich their own?
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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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