October 2016
Featured Articles
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Bibliomania, “Bit Rot” and Fetishizing Time
Christian Bök in conversation with Douglas Coupland.
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Conflict Averse
Sarah Schulman’s Conflict Is Not Abuse: a fearless view of power, victimhood and the disappearance of personal accountability.
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Jane Jacobs's Tunnel Vision
What the beloved urban thinker got wrong about the lives of cities
Lisa Vanin is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and illustrator in Toronto who graduated from OCAD University in 2009. Her client list includes the Canadian Opera Company, The Walrus, Elle Québec, and private commissioners and collectors. See more at http://www.lisavanin.com.
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Bibliomania, “Bit Rot” and Fetishizing Time
Christian Bök in conversation with Douglas Coupland.
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Conflict Averse
Sarah Schulman’s Conflict Is Not Abuse: a fearless view of power, victimhood and the disappearance of personal accountability.
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Jane Jacobs's Tunnel Vision
What the beloved urban thinker got wrong about the lives of cities
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The Audacity (and Idiocy) of Hope
A fellow electoral survivor on Noah Richler’s campaign memoir, The Candidate.
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Stuff White People Write
Why do writers who can invent universes and entire species have so much trouble creating black characters?
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Country of Eternal Forgetting
Memory, nostalgia and the writing of M.G. Vassanji.
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Phantom of the Rink
From hockey’s earliest days, the arena has shaped the game, suggests Howard Shubert in Architecture on Ice.
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The New Edwardians
The new Gilded Age and Jennifer Welsh’s The Return of History.
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Between Words
The centre cannot hold, for there is no centre: Anne Carson’s Float.
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Against the Clock
James Gleick’s Time Travel, and the undue influence of an improbable idea.
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The Other Tradecraft
Writing and espionage in John le Carré’s long-awaited memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel.