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Up in Smoke

by Bruce Livesey Brilliant, arrogant, cunning and inscrutable—for fifty years, the best legal minds that money can buy have been the tobacco industry’s secret weapon. [full text]

Clearcut

by Amanda Jernigan A poem [full text]

Fading

by Julie Wilson A story [full text]

As They Like It

by David Solway Are Western intellectuals apologists for terrorism? [full text]

Shipbreaking

by Brent Lewin A long stretch of beach in Bangladesh is the final destination for the world’s oil tankers. [full text]

Burning Water

by Tadzio Richards Welcome to a picture-perfect green valley of happy tourists, young families and corporate goodwill. Too bad you can’t drink the water. Tadzio Richards documents a community’s concern over irresponsible mining practices. [full text]

Poems among the Ads

by Brian Bartlett New verse by Brian Bartlett [full text]

Vintage Sex

by Noémi Lopinto Hot summer nights, old toys, new tricks. A coming-of-age memoir. [full text]

Copyfight

by Christopher Frey Documentary filmmaking is being crippled by the rising costs of copyrighted footage. Christopher Frey tells us how filmakers are struggling to adapt. [full text]

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Art World

by Christopher Frey Controversy in Contemporary Canadian Art: A Retrospective [full text]

Zero-Gravity Grimness

by Jonathan Kiefer The new Battlestar Galactica has done away with bumpy-headed aliens and thespian histrionics. Jonathan Kiefer explains why it’s the best “frakking” show on earth. [full text]

Canada’s Mission Impossible

by Michael Byers After five years of efforts by American, British and Canadian troops, southern Afghanistan has become more, not less, dangerous. [full text]

Mommy Doesn’t Love Me

by François Ricard Are Modern Eurpoean Writers ungrateful brats or sublime moralists? Critic François Ricard and novelist Nancy Huston square off. [full text]
Tenth Anniversary: Spring

ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012

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also in this issue:

  • Face the Music

    by Tim Falconer How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness.

  • The Big Job

    by Deni Y. Béchard As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past.

  • The Homesickness of Astronauts

    by Johanna Skibsrud "She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
  • [see full issue contents]