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… Quebecois Sport    A half hour to race time, the snow still coming down, Jean Anderson had a decision to make: canoe … of Château Frontenac. On the north shore you’ve picked two points. Maybe point one is Château Frontenac, high atop the … lakes and streams of southeast Michigan, rather docile bodies of water whereon sunbathers like to float in inner …

… from those other Mondays when the mail does not come. Even for the military, this observance has lost most … of intractable ailments and unproblematized patriotism. Remedies are promised on most pages for catarrah, persistent … trained troops faltered in the offensive of September 26. Then the next day, Jack Falkner with the 5th Marine …

… “Precautions” begins with an amusing account of having readied a boat for a hurricane, all the while looking forward … happen to the boats left unprepared; but the storm does not come. The poem concludes: Take Noah, with the ark all built, … their places somewhere along the spectrum between these points of view. “Bloody Murder” opens with a stanza composed …

… of Coroner Patterson in the case of Mrs. Henry Adams, who died suddenly in this city on Sunday last, is to the effect … who is more distant than the newly dead, more starved for comfort, love words in the dark? You, my husband, you, my … sinews of brick to launch in double arches for the portals. The architect has taught you Romanesque. Sometimes I …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … breath. Eventually, he was forced to divorced her. Then, he died. Then she did. The man was not my father. My father was … from the day he’d descended the golden escalator. “Wow, whoa,” he’d said. And, “They’re not sending their …