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24 Sussex Dive

On some very late homework

Kyle Wyatt

City Limits

That shrinking feeling

Frances Bula

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Stephen Marche
Issues

June 2010

COVER ART AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE ISSUE BY KATE WILSON. Kate Wilson is a Toronto-based visual artist.

Darwinists and Divinity

A whirlwind tour through western thought explores the big questions

Salem Alaton

Diderot Derivative

A novel poses puzzles to convey the angst of the Holocaust

Michel Basilières

The Thinking Man’s Marxist

From Montreal youth to Oxford chair, G.A. Cohen became one of our era’s great philosophical minds

Andy Lamey

Culture Clash

From opposing political camps, two new polemics aim to Enlighten

Ray Conlogue

Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

Richard Poplak

Dangerous Liaisons

Revealing the hidden history of anti-gay security measures in Canada

Mark Lovewell

Selling Tradition

In Nova Scotia, history has been written for the visitors

Christina Cameron

An Unpopular PM Revisited

There was a lot more to R.B. Bennett than the Bennett buggy

Michiel Horn

Inventive Evasion

Narrative games avoid the problem of confronting pain

Connie Gault

The Canadian Supernatural

In fiction from Charles G. D. Roberts to Gabrielle Roy and Joseph Boyden, nature takes on spiritual power.

Thomas Hodd

A Political Pioneer

The personal struggles and triumphs of Canada’s first black member of Parliament

Donna Bailey Nurse

Escape to Turkey

An Iranian father places his teenage son in the hands of smugglers

Yadi Sharifirad

A Persistent Myth

Whether effective or not, we love our peacekeepers

J.L. Granatstein

Quiet Resilience

Flight from Nazi Vienna … to the Quebec bench… and to Morin and Truscott

Philip Girard

Untying the Knot

A new book untangles historical confusion and contemporary anxieties about marriage

Stephanie Cavanaugh