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It is racism, not race, that is a risk factor for dying of COVID-19. Read more

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Doing time is not a blank, suspended existence. Read more

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It was as though a magic potion had brought him back to life. Read more

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On the curve of the contagion and on the measure of Montreality. Read more

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Corona Covid by Towanna Miller. Photo by Nathalie Bertin. From "Breathe", an exhibition of masks at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

After Paul Muldoon and Raymond Williams. Read more

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"If you are still alive, you must have had the experience of surrendering." Read more

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Ola Szczecinska returns to Warsaw to visit her grandmother, and to keep from losing her memories. Read more

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Going unnoticed must be the root sorrow for the broken. Read more

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Spiritual landscapes and unknowable people captured on film, used to convey a message. Read more

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A new anthology of reviews, interviews and commentary on Joni Mitchell's music reveals the star-making machinery. Read more

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I am sorry I caused you pain. But I thought it was okay. Read more

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D.M. Fraser on the myth of cultural identity. Read more

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Somewhere in the sweat and ache and muscle I carved a new shape for myself that made more sense. Read more

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"I want to buy a house. And build a secret room in it. And not tell the kids about it." Read more

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Connie Kuhns' major profile of punk, politics and feminism in 1970s Canada: the Moral Lepers, the Dishrags and other revolutionary bands. Read more

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Stephen Smith investigates the hockey lives of Barthes, Faulkner, Hemingway, which were marked by dismissal, befuddlement and scorn. Read more

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It's human nature to jump to the wrong conclusion–and stick with it. Read more

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Mastery of the self⁠ translated into control of the world. Read more

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Femme girls get free Slurpees, but boyish ladies get free cavity searches at the border. Read more

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