July–August 2018
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‘There’s no plan B’: Chris Hedges on the collapse of America
Charles Foran in conversation with Chris Hedges
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Autofiction grows up, a little
Heti, Knausgaard, and what it takes to turn the real into the true
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Anti-appropriation’s capitalist logic
Does a stay-in-your-lane approach really benefit traditionally oppressed cultures?
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‘We’re not in Munro country anymore’
Short fiction, genre, and the New Weird
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Plain language
The first murmurs of a constitutional debate that lasted three decades
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The great administrator
Can America’s least loved president be rehabilitated?
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Anti-monument
The searing vision of Rebecca Belmore
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Shelf actualization
The magnificent futility of literary hoarding
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We barely have Paris
A beloved author tries out a beloved cliché
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Past trauma
Richard Wagamese, and an Indigenous literary resurgence
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Field of vision
Space, time, and the marriage continuum
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God and monsters
The unbearable brightness of Stephen King
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Yesterday’s buried garbage
A story of Toronto told by its ruins
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Disaster prone
Life on the brink, from Tambora to now
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Whereas the Word Whereas
A poem
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You Look Like I Feel
A poem
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Full of misspellings and
A poem
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you are circulating your blood
A poem
Illustrators
Cover art by Caitlyn Murphy. Murphy has shown her work in solo and group shows across North America. She was artist-in-residence at Bonnie McComb Kreye in British Columbia. She lives in Toronto. Inside illustrations by Tallulah Fontaine. Fontaine is an illustrator from Edmonton, Alberta. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, Teen Vogue, Vice, and more.