Spring Archive
by Pasha Malla
Do you feel old and out-of-touch? Be thankful you’re not a professional athlete.
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by Amelia Schonbek
Poverty is crippling some of Canada’s most productive artists: the elderly.
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by Naheed Mustafa
In Afghanistan, the wisdom of the powerful has resulted in decades of endless violence. What might we learn from ordinary people?
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by Carmine Starnino
Does bpNichol’s once-revolutionary wordplay have staying power?
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by Ira Basen
The all-powerful Google search has given rise to sites like eHow.com, which critics dismiss as online sweatshops.
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by Christine Pountney
“Don’t look back,” we chide ourselves. But Christine Pountney has learned to relish her regrets.
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by Eric Rumble
Two authors offer starkly different approaches to the coming environmental disaster. Will we face climate change with hope or resignation?
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by Various Contributors
Letters from our readers.
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by Sheila Heti
Films without celebrities may seem more genuine, but in real life we’re much like movie stars.
by Rebecca Hall
Canada routinely denies visas to qualified travellers from the developing world.
by Andrew Hood
“So Jonathan Brandis is dead,” this woman tells a friend over lunch, a girlfriend, who laughs.
by Roland Pemberton
New poetry by Roland Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon.
by Nicolas Dickner
Excerpted from the novel Apocalypse For Beginners by Nicolas Dickner. Translation by Lazer Lederhendler.
by Jonathan Hobin
Childrearing and the reach of modern media
by Various Contributors
Spring reads: Jacob Wren, Julie Booker, R.T. Naylor and more.
by Chandler Levack
The season’s best albums: Destroyer, Braids, PJ Harvey and more.
ISSUE 43
Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
online content:
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by Paul Gettlich
What really happened at Occupy Toronto?
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by Christopher Szabla
Occupy and the Arab Spring are often glowingly compared to the decentralized, democratic internet. But that very similarity may have doomed these movements from the beginning.
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by Maisonneuve Staff
A decade of Maisonneuve.
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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.
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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.
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by Johanna Skibsrud
"She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon."
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