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This Postcard Life
Spiritual landscapes and unknowable people captured on film, used to convey a message. Read more
From the Heart
Michal Kozlowski on From the Heart of It All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Read more
Beginning at the Beginning
To teach us how to read Don Quixote, a text so contrary to conventional literary tradition, the prologue itself needed to break from all traditions Read more
What Survives
My great-grandfather exists now only in memory, unacknowledged even by his tombstone Read more
Capitalism Lurches into Expressionism
Stephen Osborne on The Hotel Years, a collection of short pieces by Joseph Roth. Read more
From Beyond the Grave
Michael Hayward on Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand Read more
When Blurbs Are All You Need
This text appeared on the back cover of It’s Never Over by Morley Callaghan, Laurentian Library edition, 1972. (Originally published in 1930.) Read more
Pounder Dangling on Duqesne Island
Patty Osborne on the CBC documentary series The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island. Read more
In the Pines
It is a Sunday in August. We drive from London, Ontario, to the Pinery Provincial Park in a new green 1964 Mercury Comet. Read more
Fifty Years in Review
A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery. Read more
Annals of Premium Brand Yogurt
Geist has discovered that millenials love yogurt and hate doorbells. Thanks, Twitter. Read more
Barely Bearable
Thad McIlroy on Witold Szabłowski’s Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny. Read more
