Anik See
Essays

The Crush and the Rush and the Roar

Anik See

And a sort of current ran through you when you saw it, a visceral, uncontrollable response. A physical resistance to the silence

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Rayya Liebich
Essays
Righthand Justified

Language built on sounds of delight, coloured in the gardens of Beirut

Jane Silcott
Dispatches
Gangly Man

I don’t take public transit very often, which is a failing—not just environmentally, but also personally, because sometimes that forced contact with the rest of the populated world can be profound. In Japan, many years ago, I was trapped in the small space between train cars by a crowd of schoolboys; my claustrophobia reached such a level that one leg began to judder up and down like the needle on a sewing machine, and the only thing that prevented me from climbing out over the tops of my fellow passengers’ heads was the gaze of a man about a foot away who conveyed calm to me by keeping his eyes trained on mine.

Patty Osborne
Reviews
Three Day Road

Just before the fiftieth anniversary of VE Day, I read Three Day Road (which takes place during World War I) by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada), so for once I was not put off by the CBC’s obsessive coverage of the occasion. Three Day Road is about snip

Paul Dhillon
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Severance

I had screwed up in making us blood brothers. Outside of basketball, we were different

Nofel
Poetry
In Arabic

Arabic would’ve never been were it not for our eyes

RJ McDaniel
Comics
Petrine

I made a plan to get out

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