Also in Geist 105:

Lisa Bird-Wilson on outdated Canadiana and reading Indigenously

Petronius Totem recruits "Art Warriors" for an ill-considered art project

Mary Schendlinger dissects Sartre, de Beauvoir and her daughter's cat, Lulu

Correspondence between Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson faces the complexities of bro-code at a gun safety course

Whitney French examines the root of cultural appropriation

Naomi Harris photographs a rapidly-gentrifying old folks home in Florida

Alberto Manguel unravels "the crafting of untruth" in modern journalism

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Table of Contents

FEATURES

Andrew Boden, "Shack Stories"

Michel Huneault & Sarah R. Champagne, "Unwrapping Diasporas"

Evelyn Lau, "Paradise"

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

Michał Kozłowski, "Concussive"

Robert Everett-Green, "Wholesome Reading"

Roni Simunovic, "Sucker Punch"

Randy Fred, "Borderless"

Jocelyn Kuang, "27,000 Cups of Tea"

Christine Novosel, "Hived Off"

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FINDINGS

Photos from Haddon Hall by Naomi Harris

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, "Doing the Right Thing"

Mary Di Michele, "The Montreal Book of the Dead"

The Canada 150 typeface by Ray Larabie

Peter Unwin, "Anti-Monument for an Alien Society"

Jane Rule, "Love, Jane"

Catriona Wright, "Hitler's Taste Testers"

Panels from Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey by David Collier

Pamela Newton, "Cape Breton Book of Days"

Collage, The Little Watchers by Lucie Bosquin

Whitney French, "Examining the Root of Cultural Appropriation"

Annharte, "Multicultural Timbit"

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COLUMNS

"A City for All" by Stephen Henighan, Afterlife of Culture

"Reporting Lies" by Alberto Manguel, City of Words

"Clowns, Cake, Canoes: This is Canada?" by Lisa Bird-Wilson, Bird's Eye View

"Purring and Nothingness" by Mary Schendlinger, Perfect Bound

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ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of

Native Poetry in Canada edited by Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer

Mexican Journal by P.K. Page

Storming the Digital Divide: The PovNet Story by Penny Goldsmith, Kara Sievewright and Nicole Marie Burton

Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart published by Shakespeare and Company bookstore

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes

The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings published by Library of America

A Mad Bird's Life: A Division 6 Picture Guide to Canada's Coolest Provincial Birds & Trees published by the Writers' Exchange

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And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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