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Multiple Division

As if high school isn’t hard enough

Amanda Perry

Grief Observed

A portrait of loss

Ruth Panofsky

A Developing Situation

Scenes of the first five waves

Mary Hunter
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Ray Guy

Ray Guy is an award-winning journalist and dramatist based in St. John’s.

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Ray Guy

Enforcing Terrible Secrets

This year’s Giller winner revisits the Roman Catholic sex scandals January–February 2010
A transition from journalism to literature is not always easy or successful, but The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre proves definitely that it can be done. MacIntyre, for decades the CBC’s voice and face of fresh disasters on the fifth estate and other programs, has written one previous novel (The Long Stretch) and a memoir (Causeway: A Passage from Innocence) before creating this fictional work centred on the grim topic of priestly pedophilia and set in the author’s native Cape…

Maddened Zealotry

A St. John’s journalist applauds a book that sheds more light than heat on the annual Newfoundland seal hunt July–August 2005
This is neither an easy nor an entertaining read. First you must absorb two pages of acronyms, after which you’ll know that ICES is the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and that CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna. Particularly encrusted is Chapter Five, with 104 footnotes dangling from…