July–August 2015

Dispossessed

Rethinking the expulsion of Indigenous Peoples from Canada’s parks

Ageless Gags

Revisiting the artistry of silent comedy

The Big Melt

Two books look at the impact of global warming on Canada’s Inuit

Autocorrect Off

Where BlackBerry’s founders went wrong

Culture Clash

Draft-dodging newcomers discover a Canadian Eden.

Love’s Remains

Canada’s poets have left a rich epistolary trail

Done Deal

A fresh look at the crucial meeting that made Canada.

True Patriot?

The complicated loyalties of the composer of “O Canada”

Close Encounters

How best to deal with a rising China

Boy in the Basement

Japan’s most celebrated novelist, now found in Canadian translation

The Eclipse of the Moon Viewed over the Cariboo Plateau

The Irises Given to Me by a Man Who Once Grew Apples for Stalin

The Happy Burden of Family

A quirky Saskatchewan couple grow old together in Emma Hooper’s first novel

A History of Violence

Clifford Jackman’s debut novel unpacks an American addiction

Cold Case

A centuries-old whodunit may finally have been solved

Mystery Man

A new look at the enigma that was Norval Morrisseau

Pep Talk

Tomson Highway reveals the animation of his native tongue

Author, Author!

Questioning our cherished myths about literary fame