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The F-Word

How politics and language mix

In the Human Frame

Memories of the baffled king

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

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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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…