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“Sift in an Hourglass”: Remembering Ralph Gustafson
by Bruce Whiteman
by Bruce Whiteman
Ralph and Betty Gustafson loved Chinese food. Perhaps there was no Chinese restaurant in North Hatley, the small town in…
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Out of the Bronx
by Cynthia Holz
by Cynthia Holz
I was working in a second-hand bookstore on Toronto’s Queen Street West—still a funky, grungy street in 1982—when someone walked…
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Revolutionarily Yours
by David Frank
by David Frank
Jack London’s epistolary relationship with Canadian socialist agitator Wilfrid Gribble
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My Book, My Self
by Ronald L. Grimes
by Ronald L. Grimes
At fifty I wrote Marrying & Burying, a memoir. Today, twenty-seven years later, in the middle of a pandemic, I…
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Canada’s Golden Brown Age
By Kamal Al-Solaylee
By Kamal Al-Solaylee
As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee…
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It All Adds Up
by Rod Moody-Corbett
by Rod Moody-Corbett
Saul Bellow’s oft-downplayed Canadianness is key to his best fiction
