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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Modris Eksteins

Modris Eksteins is professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto, author most recently of Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (Knopf, 2012).

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Modris Eksteins

Flight of Fancy

Love, rage, war and frustration against a Balkan backdrop. December 2012
It blew right into the lake. Like the blackbird, Kos, in its title, Chris Gudgeon’s new novel, Song of Kosovo, suddenly took wing on me and flew. That I had left it unattended on a chaise cushion where a violent gust of wind picked up both and deposited them in the drink is a feeble explanation for what…