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Behind the Lines

Two depictions of the Great War

Rocket Men

It’s going to be a long, long time

When Suppertime Came

We still don’t know why the Fitzgerald went down

Ilana Stanger-Ross

Ilana Stanger-Ross lives in Toronto, where she runs the Toronto Writing Workshops.

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Ilana Stanger-Ross

Word Limit

Two poets write debut novels in which words can only do so much April 2004
In Don Coles’s first novel, Doctor Bloom’s Story, Marianne Logan, a psychotherapist struggling to understand a woman’s rationalization of her husband’s abuse, asks her lover, the cardiologist Nicolaas Bloom, “how do you press language out of grief?” This question is at the heart of both Doctor Bloom’s Story and Maggie Helwig’s Between Mountains…