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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Kevin Shaw

Kevin Shaw was included in Best Canadian Essays 2018, with “Lend Me Your Ears: A Border Crossing in Three Acts.”

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Kevin Shaw

The Rule of Jane

A writer’s lessons for today June 2020
In a July 2019 essay for The New Republic, the gay American novelist and rabble-­rouser Dale Peck referred to Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay man to make a major bid for the White House, as a “neoliberal,” a “Jeffersonian meritocrat,” a “gay teenager,” a reluctant bottom (in so many words),…