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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

‘Their Methods Were Not Gentle’

From a decaying airport lounge to fighting on the streets of Bangui—phantoms of the past loom large over the current conflict in the Central African Republic. The second in a series of dispatches.

Nation-Building As An Act of Violence

Scotland may well deserve a position we in Canada take for granted, but there's no reason to present the fight for independence as something other than it is.

What Questions Can You Ask Mike Tyson?

The former boxer's ongoing redemption tour hit a snag when a Toronto TV reporter asked him about his criminal past. That people sided with Tyson showed just how little we expect of these interviews.

A Book About Writers That Even Civilians Can Enjoy

Ben Lerner's 10:04 is about a writer writing about being a writer writing. So what makes it so good?

The Sympathetic Guide to William T. Vollmann

Vollmann isn't post-modern so much as a 19th-century Romantic, roping himself to his desk. If you’re not in the mood it’s too rich; if you are, it’s a banquet.

Short Stories That Are Sick

Mireille Silcoff on her new fiction collection, inspired by her own epic battle with a rare spinal condition.