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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys won the Matt Cohen Award in 2023, for her contribution to Canadian letters.

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Helen Humphreys

Tonic of Wildness

She went to the woods December 2024
The first thing I was going to do, when I decided to write a novel about Henry David Thoreau, was visit Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, where he famously lived and wrote for two years in a small cabin in the woods. Everything was arranged, but the week I was meant to drive down from southeastern…