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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Climbing Down from Vimy Ridge

One of Canada’s leading historians makes a different case for military success

Plate Appearances

José Bautista and the Temple of Dome

Helen Humphreys

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

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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…