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Author Spotlight: Stephen Henighan
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Image by Gregory Betts.
Boycott Canada
Gregory Betts examines boycott culture in Canada through the lens of social media and produces a found poem of collected internet comments that records the world threatening to negate itself.
May 17, 2012 by Gregory Betts in Poetry
Photo by Mandelbrot.
Wheels
Stephen Henighan investigates bus travel as one of Canada's last surviving democratic spaces.
May 14, 2012 by Stephen Henighan in Columns
Photo courtesy of Connie Kuhns.
Last Day in Cheyenne
Remembering her father's last days in a hospital in Wyoming, Connie Kuhns struggles with questions of mortality, memory and how to fulfill her father's dying wish.
Apr 27, 2012 by Connie Kuhns in Essays (1 Comments)
CANADÆ
Jeramy Dodds rewrites the Canadian national anthem and points out that the only difference between hockey and heroin is that with hockey you shoot before you score.
Apr 27, 2012 by Jeramy Dodds in Poetry (1 Comments)
Fiercely Awake
Four poems by Vancouver Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau on aging, aching and orthotics.
Apr 12, 2012 by Evelyn Lau in Poetry (1 Comments)
Photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston
Facing the Camera
How much does a photograph really capture the essence of a person?
Mar 13, 2012 by Alberto Manguel in Columns (1 Comments)
Photo by Brian Howell
New World Publisher
Randy Fred thought that life after residential school would be drinking, watching TV and dying. Instead, he became the "greatest blind Indian publisher in the world."
Mar 5, 2012 by Michal Kozlowski in Essays (2 Comments)
Photo by Brian Howell
Edith and Frank
Ted Bishop visits Edith Iglauer and her husband Frank in their seaside home, where he is treated to a fast drive on a winding road, conversation on good books, and a lesson on what it's like to grow old gracefully.
Feb 27, 2012 by Ted Bishop in Dispatches (1 Comments)
Photo by William Notman
Deviance on Display
Daniel Francis investigates the practice of visiting asylums and penitentiaries as entertainment in nineteenth-century Canada.
Feb 23, 2012 by Daniel Francis in Columns (1 Comments)
A Table in Paris
Stephen Henighan remembers Mavis Gallant, the original nomad of Canadian literature, who wrote some of Canada's finest fiction at Pablo Picasso's café table in Paris.
Feb 20, 2012 by Stephen Henighan in Columns (3 Comments)
Illustration: Eric Uhlich
The Guy Upstairs
Veronica Gaylie encounters Trevor Linden, the Greatest Canuck Who Ever Lived, in economy class.
Feb 13, 2012 by Veronica Gaylie in Dispatches (3 Comments)
The Sisters Brothers
Review of The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. deWitt's novel has won the Governor-General's Literary Award, the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Giller and the Man Booker Prize.
Feb 9, 2012 by Patty Osborne in Reviews
Preoccupied
Stephen Osborne reflects on the Vancouver Poetry Conference, the Occupy movement, and a brunch with NaNoWriMo novelists.
Feb 9, 2012 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches
Caroline Adderson's house in 1931, courtesy of Madeleine Scott.
Lives of the House
A basement shrine in her 1920s home inspires Caroline Adderson to discover the past lives of her house and its inhabitants.
Feb 6, 2012 by Caroline Adderson in Essays (4 Comments)
Instrumentation
In his series of photographs entitled Disassembly, Todd McLellan creates portraits of discarded technology by taking apart used devices and meticulously laying them out, or dropping them from the ceiling.
Dec 8, 2011 by Mandelbrot, Todd McLellan in Photography
Remaking the Riot
Mandelbrot describes the photographic reimagining of the Gastown Riot, entitled Abbott & Cordova, 1971, by Vancouver photographer and visual artist Stan Douglas.
Dec 1, 2011 by Mandelbrot in Photography
Third World Canada
Stephen Henighan compares the chaotic sprawl of "Third World" societies to the degradation of Canada's political, social and physical landscape
Nov 28, 2011 by Stephen Henighan in Essays (1 Comments)
Cri de Coeur
Alberto Manguel explains how Ned Kelly's Jerilderie letter, written as a personal account of the murders for which he stood accused, became a depiction of the world that surrounded him, with its fears, violent acts, petty vices and helplessness
Nov 21, 2011 by Alberto Manguel in Essays
Double Life
Daniel Francis discovers that Montreal-born author John Glassco did not spend the 1920s hobnobbing with Paris' literary elite, but actually hid a secret inner life behind a veneer of social respectability
Nov 21, 2011 by Daniel Francis in Essays (1 Comments)
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