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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

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 LRC to write a 1,200-word review. I started to tell her “because I am a writer known for my provocative…