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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Robert Pierre Tomas

Robert Pierre Tomas is a Toronto-based former broadcast journalist and writer. Originally from Poland, he has travelled extensively across central and eastern Europe.

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Passionless Powder Keg

A tale of the Balkan war, minus the dramatic details May 2008
War is not a topic that lends itself easily to fiction. Don’t get me wrong: there are many great war novels, written by authors of differing magnitude, from Leo Tolstoy to Erich Maria Remarque to James Michener to Miroslav Krleža to Miodrag Bulatovič. Krleža? Bulatovič? Who are they, you would be right to ask. Since there is nary a translation available in English of the works of either Yugoslav…