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Pitch Perfect?

On the promise and perils of global soccer

How Graphic Are These Novels?

Banned books deserve reviews too

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Issues

July | August 2026

Front cover by Scot Ritchie for July/August 2026.
Scot Ritchie is an award-winning author and illustrator from Vancouver. His children’s books include Marian’s “Big Dig,” with Laura Bontje, and “The Sustainable School: A Journey Through Time and Energy,” with Erica Fyvie.

For All to Hear

A collective wake-up call

Kyle Wyatt

Pitch Perfect?

On the promise and perils of global soccer

James Brooke-Smith

From the 500s with Love

Remember peanuts and Cracker Jack?

Stacey May Fowles

Sound Footings

On otter pelts and territorial disputes

Michael Ledger-Lomas

La variole

Echoes of infections past

John Baglow

The Pigeon Press

Boats, birds, and telegraph wires

Ron Verzuh

Puss in Books

We have always served at their pleasure

Kyle Wyatt

Wolves at the Door

Seeking a robust Canadian nationalism

Bruce K. Ward

How Graphic Are These Novels?

Banned books deserve reviews too

Amanda Perry

Doing Nothing Right

Somewhere between laid-back and laid off

Greg Hudson

Island of Exteriors

Before and after Habitat 67

Kelvin Browne

A Separate Piece

The misery of a broken heart

Pamela Mulloy

Unaccompanied Minors

A different kind of immigration story

Jack Wang

That Old Song

Two accounts of the Near North

Bob Armstrong

There Will Be Change

Of worker bees and warnings

Jude Isabella

Just Dessert

A surfer runs to it

Dan Rubinstein

In No Small Part

A. F. Moritz’s witty collection

Kelly Baron

A Week in September

Wayne Johnston unveils another family drama

Tom Jokinen

Inscrutable Revelations

The latest from John Irving

Jack Sullivan

Pet Project

A sharp debut from Nadja Lubiw‑Hazard

Danielle Douez

Slain and Abel

Don Gillmor’s Hogtown confidential

Kevin Jagernauth

A Spirited Debacle

Michael Eddy’s satirical first novel

Rod Moody-Corbett

Figure of Speeches

What Arthur Meighen thought of William Shakespeare

Maureen Jennings