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American Judge

The normal is gone

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand is a professor of ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Guelph. Her book This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart won the 2020 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.

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“This is not a simulation”

Inner and outer beasts of girlhood May 2018
The book’s first sentence sets us firmly in time and place: “Rivière-à-Pierre, the Gaspé Peninsula, winter 1933.” But very soon, the reader understands that this story will take place, like a fairy tale, largely in a world that transcends time and place. It is told in the voice of an eleven-year old girl (clearly the namesake of the…