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Paul Blakemore
PuSh Fetival 2018: History History History
Deborah Pearson screens a Hungarian political satire about soccer interspersed with commentary and a family quest. Read more
VIFF 2017: Sour Apples
A few decades in the lives of Turkish sisters transport the audience from rural mountain life to the modern big city in this funny, emotional film which is both sweet and sour. Read more
Be Careful What You Wish For
A tarot card reading for John Franklin, Arctic explorer and Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, by Phoebe Tsang. Read more
Umpire of the St. Lawrence
Donald Creighton was a bigot and a curmudgeon, a cranky Tory with a chip on his shoulder. He was also the country’s leading historian, who changed the way that Canadians told their own story. Read more
Author Tour, 1923
The poet Wilson MacDonald reluctantly reveals secrets of literary success. Read more
Insurgency
Stephen Osborne discusses the past, present and future of literary magazines in Canada. Read more
We Are Not a Nation of Amnesiacs
"Canadians have long been convinced that we do not know much, or care much, about our own history, but a new study suggests that this truism is not true." Read more
Who Cares Who Ate John Franklin?
Daniel Francis on John Franklin, John Rae and the Globe and Mail's enthusiasm for cannibalism. Read more
Phantom Ride with Schopenhauer
Stephen Osborne's broken cellphone leads him to Schopenhauer, the Titanic publishing industry and historical Phantom Rides. Read more
Homage to Nicaragua
Despite hardships and dangerous slums, Nicaragua maintains a sense of hope that draws back to the democratic days of the Sandinistas. Read more
The Canadian New Age
A review of the Vanguard of the New Age, Gillian McCann's book about the Theosophical Society, which mixes western spiritualism and eastern mysticism. Read more
Postcolonial Bodies
A man who could dominate his own body was naturally superior to residents of lands “remote and uncivilized.” Read more
Language and Nation Now
Do shared languages form the natural boundaries of any nation in the world? Read more
Pioneer Justice
In The Lynching of Louie Sam, two teenage boys watched as another—an Aboriginal named Louie Sam—was hanged by a group of men who rode on horseback. Reviewed by Patty Osborne. Read more
Cottonopolis
"A rookery of dead ends and curved lanes. Everywhere heaps of debris. Pigs rooting in eyes." Explore Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, in poem. Read more
Huan Tran
It's a Free Country, Isn't It?
During the 1950s the RCMP used a machine to identify federal employees who were homosexuals. The name of this bogus device? The "fruit machine," of course. Read more
Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile. Coup D'etat, 1973.
The Other 9/11
Chileans remember when their government was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet on September 11, 1973. Read more
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