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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Bruce Whiteman

Bruce Whiteman recently edited Best Canadian Essays 2021.

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Bruce Whiteman

She Liked Short Lines

The lyrical voices of Carol Shields March 2022
For her 1987 novel, Swann: A Mystery, which was reissued as simply Swann and as Mary Swann in foreign markets, Carol Shields composed several poems as representative works of her protagonist. Mary Swann is a poet from the countryside around Kingston, Ontario, who is murdered by her husband, at…