October 2018
Featured Articles
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The Cult of Personal Autonomy
The triumph of identity in politics, and everywhere else
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How we remember Leonard Cohen
Memorializing the artist who resists enshrinement
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The truth of Canada's failure in Afghanistan
Chris Alexander on “geopolitical condescension” and the Forever War

Based in Matane, Quebec, Sébastien Thibault creates illustration that provides sharp political commentary on topics that are relevant today. He uses graphic shapes, simplified form, and intense colour to create symbolic images for publications like the New York Times, L’actualité, and the Guardian.
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The Cult of Personal Autonomy
The triumph of identity in politics, and everywhere else
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How we remember Leonard Cohen
Memorializing the artist who resists enshrinement
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The truth of Canada's failure in Afghanistan
Chris Alexander on “geopolitical condescension” and the Forever War
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The foreign-baby baby problem
A lesson on citizenship from contemporary Japan, and 1860s America
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On looking, and love
Did captivity save the killer whale?
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A boy meets the world
Esi Edugyan’s epic, and art from human bondage
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Looking out for number one
The unmentionable void in modern city planning
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A more sentimental man
Michael Ondaatje’s late style
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A novel bursts to life
The quiet brilliance of Helen Humphreys
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‘The sly and cunning masquerade’
A brief history of literary fakes
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‘A siege of reading’
Is politics diminishing a burgeoning literature of the Middle East?