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Seeing Stars

Expansionist jabs over the years

Conspiracy Interceptor

Facts and fictions of the Avro Arrow

Slouching toward Democracy

Where have all the wise men gone?

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…