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“Surfacing” Resurfaces
by Emily M. Keeler
by Emily M. Keeler
Why Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel remains an uncannily courageous, weird, and potentially explosive work.
Browsing: Essays
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The Sunken Kingdom
by Peter Dubé
by Peter Dubé
A story is haunting me. In itself, this is not unusual; stories are central, indeed generative, in my life, but the particular story is peculiar. It’s old and I suspect most people know it…
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Beautiful Losers: Fifty Years Later, Leonard Loses His Erection
by Anakana Schofield
by Anakana Schofield
In his essay, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible,” John Berger writes, “The impulse to paint comes neither…
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THE OTHER F-WORD: The Disappearance of Feminism from Our Fiction
by Nicole Dixon
by Nicole Dixon
Two months before Canada was to host the G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto, Conservative senator Nancy Ruth told women’s…
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The View From Shore: A Writer in Mid-Career Takes Stock
by Charles Foran
by Charles Foran
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…
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Make-Believe Books and Imaginary Libraries: From Rabelais to Seth
by Jeet Heer
by Jeet Heer
Spend half an hour wandering through the stacks of a decent sized library and you’ll quickly be overwhelmed by the…
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What You Don’t See When you Look Back
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
by Kamal Al-Solaylee
The photographs appear periodically on my Facebook wall. Friends and acquaintances post them and reminisce about simpler, and if not better,…
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It’s Enough That We’re Here: Thoughts on Baseball and Recovery
by Stacey May Fowles
by Stacey May Fowles
The month I started writing this piece I got into my first bike accident. The only really notable thing about…
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Pinball: A Walking Tour
by Emily Donaldson
by Emily Donaldson
On a cool night in May 2015, our fifteen-year-old son, Finn, went missing for three hours. For most parents of…
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Of a Smallness in the Soul
by André Alexis
by André Alexis
for George Elliott Clarke I don’t like to be thought of as a “black writer,” largely because I refuse to…