June 2007
Oasis of Hope
Love, sex, and a mid-life crisis at a Tijuana cancer clinic. NMA nominee: Health and Medicine
March 2007
We Want a Black Poem
In search of an interview with James Baldwin, a young Canadian immigrant experiences the intensity of Harlem in the 1960s, and ultimately finds Malcolm X.
February 2007
July 2006
The Changeling
On top of the TV there was a picture, colourized and framed, of baby Gail sitting on my father’s knee, with her name printed in the top right corner: Gail Gallant at 3 months
My Life with Tolstoy
It was an ill-advised journey. You don’t go to Jamaica in August unless you grew up there. Too hot. And those roosters.
Swimming with Mao
By the time I left China, I had either thrown away or lost my childhood collection of memorabilia from the Cultural Revolution
October 2005
January 2005
September 2004
June 2004
The Book of Bob
It’s been said my grandfather helped build modern-day Korea. He left a subtler kind of legacy for me.
