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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?

Michael Posner

Michael Posner is the author of The Last Honest Man: An Oral Biography of Mordecai Richler (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).

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Michael Posner

Sentimental Education

A broken-hearted hero searches for a moral compass March 2015
In the prologue to Eric McCormack’s new novel, Cloud, the book’s narrator and protagonist, Harry Steen, recounts a tale that can scarcely be believed. Steen discovers the story by accident. While attending a mining conference in the Mexican town of La Verdad—meaning “the truth”—he kills time one rainy afternoon in a used …