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Chancing to Rise

Our evolving relationship with China

Dan Dunsky

Snow Globe

Lisa Moore’s latest

Brad Dunne

Clock Watching

The nuclear threat lingers still

Joyce Wayne
Issues

November 2025

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November 2025 front cover by Alanna Cavanagh.
Alanna Cavanagh is an illustrator and artist in Toronto. She recently designed custom wine labels for the Toronto Raptors, with Pearl Morissette Winery, as well as a limited-edition tote bag for the Gardiner Museum.

Trading Spaces

As we enter our thirty-fifth year

Kyle Wyatt
Photograph for Robert Lewis’s November 2025 review of “The Coutts Diaries” edited by Ron Graham.

Ottawa Confidential

The private thoughts of a public figure

Robert Lewis
Illustration by Aislin for Graham Fraser’s November 2025 review of ‘Lévesque/Trudeau” by Jean- François Lisée and “Pierre Elliott Trudeau” by Guy Bouthillier.

How They Remembered

New takes on Trudeau and Lévesque

Graham Fraser
Tom Jokinen reviews Claire Hoffman’s “Sister, Sinner,” a book on the life of the Canadian evangelist preacher Aimee Semple McPherson.

Bring to Heal

A Canadian evangelist in Hollywood

Tom Jokinen
Illustration by David Parkins for Amy Spurway’s November 2025 review of “John Candy” by Paul Myers.

Very Big in Sheboygan

Why we still love John Candy

Amy Spurway
Photograph for J. L. Granatstein’s November 2025 review of “Second Front” by Marc Milner.

With Friends Like These

A revisionist history of Operation Overlord

J.L. Granatstein

Vet Check

Now open your mouth and say oink

J.R. Patterson
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger for Lenore Lauri Newman’s Novmeber 2025 review of “Happy Meat” by Josée Johnston et al.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Abattoir!

Having your steak and eating it too

Lenore Lauri Newman
Illustration by Matthew Daley for Jeffrey David’s November 2025 review of “Catch a Fire” by Ben Kaplan.

Joint Ventures

A short history of legal marijuana

Jeffrey David
Illustration by Nick Lowndes for Pamela Divinsky’s November 2025 review of “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee.

iCapitalism

An arrangement that changed our lives

Pamela Divinsky
Illustration by Dave Murray for J. D. M. Stewart’s review of “Toronto Blue Jays” by Keegan Matheson.

Plate Appearances

José Bautista and the Temple of Dome

J.D.M. Stewart
Illustration by Diana Bolton for Pamela Mulloy’s November 2025 review of “This Way Up” by Cathrin Bradbury.

Look Both Ways

Cathrin Bradbury keeps going

Pamela Mulloy
Illustration by Natàlia Pàmies Lluís for Ruth Panofsky’s November 2025 review of “A Truce That Is Not Peace” by Miriam Toews.

Life Lines

Miriam Toews’s affirming reflections

Ruth Panofsky

On the Wing

Letting hope linger and fly

Susan Glickman
Illustration by Karsten Petrat for Dan Rubinstein’s November 2025 review of “Is a Rier Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane and “Theory of Water” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

Streams of Consciousness

Two authors go with the flow

Dan Rubinstein

Two Emails

Coincidence strikes like premonition

Patrick Warner
Illustration by Silas Kaufman for Keith Garebian’s November 2025 review of “The Kingston Prize” by Jason Donville, with Tatum Dooley.

Face Book

Gazing at Canada’s portrait competition

Keith Garebian

Splices of Life

Mikhail Iossel delays the full stop

Pablo Strauss
Illustration by Sarah Farquhar for Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s November 2025 review of “Other Evolutions” by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia.

The Aftermath

A mournful debut from Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Illustration by Sandi Falconer for Kevin Jagernauth’s November 2025 review of “Self Care” by Russell Smith.

Modern Liaisons

Russell Smith’s satiric critique

Kevin Jagernauth
Illustration by Blair Kelly for John Casey’s November 2025 review of “These Memories Do Not Belong to Us” by Yiming Ma.

Empire State of Mind

Yiming Ma speculates

John Casey
Illustration by Paige Stampatori for Marisa Grizenko’s November 2025 review of “Living Expenses” by Teri Vlassopoulos.

Season upon Season

Teri Vlassopoulos on the cost of happiness

Marisa Grizenko

A Miller’s Son

Returning to Stendhal’s chronicle of French society

Allan Hepburn