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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

George Melnyk

George Melnyk teaches Canadian studies and film studies at the University of Calgary.

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George Melnyk

A Broken Head

Robotic reveries blur reality and fantasy. July–August 2009

The Wisdom of Bones

A novel hunts fossils and finds the human heart October 2007
Bone sharp is a 19th-century term used to describe paleontologists. Its use in the title of Edmonton writer and poet Tim Bowling’s third novel is both a descriptor for Charles H. Sternberg (1850–1943), its fossil-hunting protagonist, and a metaphor for the emotional dramas that unfold in the story. Sternberg was an American who searched for dinosaur fossils in Alberta during the early part of the 20th…