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The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

One Brief Shining Moment

The world’s fair that put Canada (fleetingly) on the map

Jack Chambers

Jack Chambers taught at the University of Toronto and wrote A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington.

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Rye Observations

What we talk about when we talk about Holden January | February 2026
It was an accident. I had no intention of reading The Catcher in the Rye again, let alone last summer. It came about because my wife and our adult children got this quaint notion about decluttering the bookshelves at our cottage. The question became: “Prize it or pitch it?” One of the many decisions I faced was over a 1999 paperback of Salinger: A Biography