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Surviving a brutal residential school should have been a victory for a young First Nations boy. But in this excerpt from Up Ghost River, it's a moment of relative calm in a lifetime of exploitation.
The author of Sweetland on foolish courage in the face of death, and the dangers of romanticizing Newfoundland.
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How life in communist Czechoslovakia resembles life, for some, in 21st-century America.
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