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Hope and the Apocalypse

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Nikolski, Nicolas Dickner, trans. Lazer Lederhendler, Vintage Canada Tarmac, Nicolas Dickner, Éditions Alto

by Neil Smith
08.02.2010

Nicolas Dickner is French Canada’s most promising novelist. His first novel, the bestselling Nikolski (2005), earned him a slew of awards. The English edition is competing in Canada Reads this year. Here he talks about his second novel, Tarmac, which was released last year.

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MUSIC

Martha’s Musings: Muffins Get Personal

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MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS, Delicate

by Neil Smith
07.01.2010

Martha Johnson, lead singer of Martha and the Muffins of “Echo Beach” fame, reflects on her music career, her life with partner Mark Gane, and their new album, Delicate, which comes out in early February, 18 long years after the release of their previous album.

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BOOKS

The Tortoise Wins the Race

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Come Thou Tortoise, Jessica Grant, Knopf Canada

by Neil Smith
04.07.2009

NS: Your narrator, Audrey, was born on February 29 of a leap year. So although she’s lived 24 years, she’s had only six birthdays. What intrigues you about a character who’s half-child and half-adult? JG: What I feel isn’t so much intrigue as comfort. I’m comfortable with Audrey because her status as leapling makes literal [...]

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BOOKS

Jesus Christ, Superstar No More

THE FIRE GOSPEL Michel Faber, Knopf Canada

by Neil Smith
17.01.2009

JESUS WAS A BAG OF BONES and guts covered in skin. He was just like us, nothing more. So concludes a new gospel brought to light by atheist academic Theo Griepenkerl in Michel Faber’s weirdly touching novel The Fire Gospel. Theo is an eminent authority on Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. In a bombed-out museum [...]

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