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Art
Cross-Border Shopping
by Blake Gopnik
Western curators are travelling the globe to find great art. Are they celebrating other visual cultures, or just hoping to enrich their own?
Method
The Clown
by Alex Ulam
How to tell jokes that win friends and influence people in an ancient city in sub-Saharan Africa
Books
The Art of the Bad Review
by Andy Lamey
We need more book critics who are fearless – though that alone won’t do
Flash Fiction
Not Enough Horses
by Thomas King
WHEN Clinton Merasty showed up at Sarah Heavyman’s place with the box,
Letters from Editors
Only Too Happy to Oblige
by Douglas Bell
THE FOLLOWING appeared in The Globe and Mail’s letter-from-the-editor
Questions Surrounding My Disappearance
by Edward Riche
GRANTED, things have not been well in the Canadian Film and Television Industry, and
Fiction
An African Sermon
by Damon Galgut
SOME YEARS ago, a young man was travelling on the train between Pretoria and Cape Town.
Sightings
Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
by Ken Alexander
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
Poetry
Cashew #4
by M. NourbeSe Philip
firm-fleshed red pendulous breast nipple hardened into promise in seed curled green fetus the cashew hangs longs for the
Politics
Iran’s Great Game
by Hugh Graham
In 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran because he believed Iranian fundamentalists were plotting against him. Today, with increasing chaos on the ground, is Iraq still threatened by Iranian subversion?
Field Notes
China Beach, Then and Now
by Charles Foran
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based
Detail
What Lies Beneath
by Maura Biava
“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The
Flash Fiction
You Go First
by Camilla Gibb
CARL THE cremator lived next door – Carl and his big wife, Brenda, who was allergic to
The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay
by Bill Cameron
Omar Khadr has been held incommunicado by the United States for almost two years. He could be a terrorist, but without due process we may never know
Fiction
Live Large
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
BILLY CONSTABLE hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June
Field Notes
The Fixers
by Chris Wattie
12 wing shearwater, n.s.—Master Warrant Officer Lin Vallis, a barrel-chested forty-eight-year-old with
Field Notes
Dubbing, Italian-Style
by David Bezmozgis
rome—At the end of the Via Urbana, just below the Santa Maria Maggiore church is, arguably, the ugliest
Walden Pond Revisited
by Thaddeus Holownia
THADDEUS Holownia, an artist and professor of fine arts in Sackville, New Brunswick, has
Fiction
Platanus
by Banana Yoshimoto
MENDOZA was the perfect town for me and my ageing husband. I don’t really
Food and Drink
A Moveable Feast
by Margaret Visser
The Mediterranean Diet, an essentially American myth, is at last coming to the Mediterranean region itself
Flash Fiction
Summer Plum (Winter Version)
by Corety Frost
I WAS ABOUT seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for
Field Notes
The Downsized Dream Car
by Larry Krotz
amsterdam—Anyone who has been in Europe any time over the past six years is certain to have encountered a tiny
