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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

Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid lives with his wife, the poet Susan Musgrave, on Haida Gwaii. His last book was A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden (Thistledown Press, 2012).

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Stephen Reid

Unfinished Business

A British Columbia writer exorcises ghosts from her family’s past March 2016
My wife, a cynical observer of literary criticism in this country, seemed curious. “Why would they ask you?” she wanted to know, referring to the blue hardcover I had just received in the mail along with a request from the Literary Review of Canada to write a 1,200-word review. I started to tell her “because I am a writer known for my provocative…