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Ice Cream Dude
Compassionate, good truck driver, likes kids, likes ice cream—the makings of a no-fail ice cream dude. Read more
Memory Lane
Anson Ching on Mo Yan's ability to tell stories as if they were written memories. Read more
Photo by Flickr user Waferboard
Mission
Salmon runs, voodoo juice and chewing the fat in Mission. Read more
Shtisel
Patty Osborne on Shtisel—an Israeli TV series about an ultra-religious Jewish family in Jerusalem. Read more
Distant Early Warning
We think of the Arctic as pristine and untouched—but nowhere on the planet is as harshly impacted by climate change. Read more
Murder by Milkshake
Debby Reis on Canadian institutions, 1960s counterculture and milkshake. Read more
Suffer the Children
Immigration questions 9 and 10: How do you like where you’re living now? Are you happy here? Read more
Japanese Beatniks and Revised Boy Scouts
Michael Hayward on a selection of work from the writing collective known as "the Beats" Read more
Queerspawn
Patty Osborne on twenty-four essays of "rants and reflections on growing up with LGBTQ+ parents." Read more
Photo by Wikimedia user Thomas1313
After the Money
Notes from the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Read more
Brion Gysin: Honorary Canadian
Michael Hayward on a collection of conversations with Brion Gysin—writer and counterculture legend. Read more
Till Talk
Han Fusen navigates multiculturalism and kookoo sabzi from inside a Persian grocery store. Read more
What They Say
Mary Schendlinger on Natalia Ginzburg's narrative of her family during the rise of Hitler and Mussolini. Read more
Libraries without Borders
Reading is a subversive activity and does not believe in the convention of borders. Read more
