Readings

||Kent Monkman, Treason of Images , ||Rebecca Belmore
As Long as the Grass is Green

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land. An excerpt from Thomas King's latest book, The Inconvenient Indian.

||Image from the series Love and War by Guillaume Simoneau , ||Image from the series Love and War by Guillaume Simoneau
Love Leaves Few Traces

Montreal photographer Guillaume Simoneau never expected his art to take a turn toward the confessional. But his series Love and War, about a young US army sergeant's romantic life, reads as more than evidence of an affair, or one woman's coming of age—it finds its best poetry where it struggles to tell its own story.

Battling Bitterness with Boogeymen

George Saunders discusses his new short story collection, Tenth of December, the importance of public artists, and the possibility that fiction makes us better people.

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The Night Caller

During a stint taking calls for a distress centre hotline, the author asks herself: Did I help a guy get off or did I save his life?

| |Image from Holy Motors, directed by Léos Carax and starring Denis Lavant , | |Image from Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film
The Death/Not-Death of Cinema

It's not the first time critics have announced the death of cinema, or harkened nostalgically to past golden ages. But judging the digital revolution in moviemaking is about more than counting critical hits and misses, or lamenting a decline in dramatic realism.