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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

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…