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The Answer to Everything

You are standing in front of a mechanical contraption, and you have a choice: push the big black SAVE button and preserve a one-of-a-kind photograph, or do nothing and watch the image obliterate in a ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The things I heard about you

By Alex Leslie

Alex Leslie’s manuscript for The things I heard about you was a finalist for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Its innovation draws inspiration from the late John Thompson, a poet with a ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Five Days Left

By Julie Lawson Timmer

Julie Lawson Timmer lets you know how highly dramatic her debut novel will be in the opening paragraph: “Mara had chosen the method long ago: pills, vodka and carbon monoxide. A ‘garage cocktail,’ she called ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison

By Ramin Jahanbegloo

A memoir about solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison conjures up nightmarish images of severe body blows and gruesome acts that don’t make for bedtime reading. However, celebrated author and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo’s take ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blind Spot

By Laurence Miall

Most Western readers know the story of Meursault, a French Algerian who, upon learning of his mother’s death, returns home for her funeral. Though the funeral leaves him unmoved, he subsequently embarks upon a spree ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters

By Alfred Hermida

When an unarmed black teen by the name of Michael Brown was gunned down by police in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson in August, Twitter erupted with outrage over what many saw as an unjustified, ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy

By Thomas P. Keenan

We live in an age where the spread of information technology has far outstripped our understanding or control over it. We face the daunting prospect of a reality where privacy is increasingly rare and the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

Cloud

By Erin McCormack

The strengths of Cloud relate directly to our conviction in Harry Steen, its elderly narrator. Considering Steen’s generally acquiescent and inward personality, his far-flung and adventure-stuffed story (which recalls any number of old-time “guy lit” ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia; ed.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia knows apocalypses. Her previous anthology for Exile Editions, Dead North, featured an entire volume of them, brought on by a blight of zombies. Her latest carries on telling stories of Canadians on the ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Death of Derek Boogaard

By John Branch

The sudden death in 2011 of National Hockey League enforcer Derek Boogaard shocked the hockey world in ways that continue to resonate today. Just 28 at the time of his death, Boogaard was the NHL’s ... Read More »

October 16, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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