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One Explosive Situation

An industry that writes its own rules leaves us all at risk

Starchitect Saga

Two accounts chart the emergence of Frank Gehry’s genius

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Rod Moody-Corbett

Rod Moody-Corbett teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary.

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Rod Moody-Corbett

The Imposter

David Bergen goes in for the kill December 2025
Early in David Bergen’s Days of Feasting and Rejoicing, a murderer-to‑be rehearses her metamorphosis. The American expat Esther Maile is visiting Bali with Christine, a Canadian with whom she shares a duplex in Thailand. One evening, while her friend is out dancing, Esther, who dreams of inhabiting another self, “a different body,” steps into her underwear: “Very…