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July/August 2013

Summer reading with six exciting new Canadian authors: Mona Awad, Kris Bertin, Vincent Colistro, Suzannah Showler, Jill Sexsmith, and Derek Webster; Richard Gwyn ponders the appeal of Justin Trudeau; Peter Andrey Smith studies the Experimental Lakes project; Craig Davidson deconstructs his memories of scandal-ridden Marineland…

Illustration by Karsten Petrat
July/August 2013

The Contender

July 25, 2013December 20, 2024 - by Richard Gwyn

The appeal of Justin Trudeau’s emotional intelligence

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July/August 2013 / Poetry

You and Your Rich Inner Life

July 24, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Suzannah Showler

External conditions conspire to slip along the waxy thread of your nerves and hunker down, cathectic, in the carry-on you keep at the ready for a flight from the everyday. …

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Illustration by Will Vincent; photograph by Adam Biehler. A close up shot of a tea cup on a saucer with a miniature red, toy car beside it.
Fiction / July/August 2013

Somewhere, a Long, Happy Life Probably Awaits You

July 22, 2013October 13, 2021 - by Jill Sexsmith

Throughout their marriage, Elizabeth has been known to wander

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Illustration by Jenn Kitagawa
July/August 2013 / Poetry

Leisure

July 17, 2013June 21, 2016 - by Vincent Colistro

With no one to properly apply the tourniquet, he afforded himself the rare opportunity to just bleed everywhere. On the bedskirt, the garlic bowl, the painting of a smudge that …

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Illustration by Will Vincent; photograph by Adam Biehler
Fiction / July/August 2013

The Eviction Process

July 15, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Kris Bertin

We evict Champ first because we’re worried he’ll kill us. Even laid up in the hospital with one hand set to rot off, he could do it. Even fucked up, …

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Illustration by Marco Cibola
July/August 2013

Troubled Waters

July 10, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Peter Andrey Smith

The Experimental Lakes project has influenced environmental policy around the world. So why would the Harper government abandon it?

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July/August 2013 / Poetry

Egyptian Archers

July 10, 2013July 20, 2017 - by Derek Webster

In Egyptian art, one archer stands For all archers, Their contour drawn from his thigh, his shin, his chest, His bow and quiver, A deck of desires slightly spread. Archers …

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Fiction / July/August 2013

When We Went against the Universe

July 8, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Mona Awad

Where we went against the universe was at the McDonald’s on the corner of Wolfedale and Mercer. On a sunny afternoon. Mel and I hate sunny afternoons. Especially here in …

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July/August 2013 / Technology

Quantum Leap

July 3, 2013July 13, 2016 - by Alex Hutchinson

We have finally made a quantum computer. But will it change anything?

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Illustration by Jenn Kitagawa
July/August 2013 / Justice

Splitting Heirs

July 2, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Michael Lista

The royal baby and our troubled Constitution

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