Berfrois

Canada

Jamie Lee Hamilton, Vancouver’s unrepentant whore

‘Modern Canada is as much a palimpsest as a mosaic…a truth that manifests itself in two divergent traditions of immigrant assimilation’

(Book excerpt: ‘The Amazing Absorbing Boy’ by Rabindranath Maharaj)

(Book excerpt: ‘Cockroach’ by Rawi Hage)

(Book excerpt: ‘Neverland’ by Joseph O’Neill)

Short story: ‘Agreeable’ by Jonathan Franzen
Poetry podcast: Monica Ferrell reads Beautiful Funeral
Slideshow: Ghada Amer’s Erotic Embroidery
Podcast: Dan Chiasson on Lydia Davis
Illustrated book excerpt: Know Your Rodent
Podcast: The Gold Standard and the Eurozone Crisis