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Canadian Fiction
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Two Female Modes of Transportation
The boy watches as the girl slumps over herself, the fire hair like a warning against coming closer
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The Last Vacation
The face of the con was always someone who embodied the fashion of the time—a slob, a genius, or finally, a charismatic dum-dum
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Jude the Brave
Everything looked the same as the year before—the rows of brick, a tree with lights, an inflatable Santa. Nothing was
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The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence
Do You Remember Being Born? is a tech-inflected novel for a digital world
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The Photograph, 1889
She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
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Saving Robert Zimmerman
They saved Bob Dylan. I know, because I was there
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