Geist 98

Alberto Manguel
Columns
In Praise of Ronald Wright

"Authenticity is the essential quality of all travel literature, imaginary or real."

Ivan Coyote
Essays
Shouldn’t I Feel Pretty?

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

D.M. FRASER
Essays
Surrounded by Ducks

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

Daniel Francis
Columns
Birth of a Nation

Lacking in drama and embarrassingly undemocratic, Canada’s origins owe a lot to old-fashioned politics and not much to European battles or transcontinental railways.

Kris Rothstein
Reviews
All Folked Up

Kris Rothstein recounts her experience at the Pickathon, a music festival in Portland, Oregon.

Levine Flexhaug
A Sublime Vernacular

A series of of speed paintings by Levine Flexhaug.

Stephen Osborne
Reviews
A Dream of Bearded Ladies

Stephen Osborne talks about Bearded Ladies, a documentary about the works of renowned photographer Rosamond Norbury.

Anna Banana
45 Years of Fooling Around with A. Banana

An exploration of art and pop culture by Anna Banana.

M.A.C. Farrant
Dispatches
4-Day Forecast for Wendy

"Today your dog will decide to end things. Your dog, who is wearing a red vinyl jacket and is tied to the tree on the boulevard outside the thrift store."

Michael Hayward
Reviews
Dream-Life of Cities

"If cities can be said to be alive, how many of them dream of growing up to become Paris?" Michael Hayward reviews How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean.

Stephen Henighan
Columns
City Apart

The idea of Europe is incarnated nowhere as much as in St. Petersburg—Stephen Henighan on Europe's greatest city.

Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Knitting Class

During World War II my grandmother ran contraband, hunted pigeons.

Luke MacLean
Dispatches
Je M'Appelle Raphael

Possum-style or straight up dirty.

Patty Osborne
Reviews
Spectrums

Patty Osborne reviews Do You Think This Is Strange? by Aaron Cully Drake, a look into the mind of an autistic teenage boy.

ANNMARIE MACKINNON
Reviews
Skip to the Obits

AnnMarie MacKinnon reviews Death and the Penguin, a novel that follows the life of a young Ukrainian writer and his penguin.

Stephen Osborne
Reviews
Unhappy

Stephen Osborne discusses the happiness level of Vancouver, the best place on earth.

Eve Corbel
Reviews
Gagster Movies

Eve Corbel reviews two short biographic documentaries: Seth's Dominion and I Thought I Told You to Shut Up.

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