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Summer Travel Reading, from the NMA Archives
A friend dropped us a note recently from his travels in Austria: “I never imagined this place would be so stimulating: the mountains, the gardens, the café life; even the stodgy old Habsburg homes have...
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Summer Reading Series 2: Great Essays from the NMA Archives
“What do I know?” asked Lewis Lapham. “The question distinguishes the essay from the less adventurous forms of expository prose—the dissertation, the polemic, the article, the campaign speech, the...
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Summer Reading Series 3: (Olympic) Sports & Recreation
Like hundreds of millions around the world, we watched the opening ceremonies of the London Olympic Games not only to see what Danny Boyle could do with $43-million and a top-hatted Kenneth Branagh,...
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Summer Reading Series 4: Fantastic Fiction
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being ‘false,’ ‘untrue,’ yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.” –...
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Summer Reading Series 5: Award-Winning Personal Journalism
The fifth installment of the National Magazine Awards’ summer reading series turns your attention to Personal Journalism. For anyone unfamiliar with this type of magazine writing, let’s borrow a line...
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Summer Reading Series 6: Profound Poetry
Hannah Arendt “Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.” – Hannah...
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Summer Reading Series 7: Best Magazine Short Features
The Short Feature is the catchy folk song of the magazine world–three chords, succinct enlightenment, and a tune you’re glad to have stuck in your head. Sure, a lot of what makes magazines great is the...
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Summer Reading Series 8: Award-Winning Arts & Entertainment
Two days hence and the stars and starlets of Hollywood will park their jets in Hogtown for the Toronto International Film Festival, and you’ll pardon this blogger if he’s camped at the corner of...
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Summer Reading Series 9: Popular Profiles
What makes a person tick? We sometimes ask a question like that anticipating an equally laconic answer. Ah, but the magazine is among many things a forum for nuance and context. The best personal...
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Summer Reading Series X: One-of-a-Kind Stories
Sometime on Saturday the Earth’s equatorial plane will appear to tilt away from the sun and welcome its rays more southward, signaling the autumnal equinox for those of us in the northern hemisphere....
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The 36th National Magazine Awards Gold Book
Make your summer reading the National Magazine Awards digital Gold Book. More than forty magazine stories and visual spreads representing the Gold winners from the 36th annual National Magazine Awards,...
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Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 1: Teens, Tweens & Toddlers
This summer we’ve pledged to read every winning story from the 2015 National Magazine Awards. Every gold winner. Every silver winner. Because whether you’re a veteran journalist, an aspiring writer,...
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Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 2: Alberta Bound, Alberta Bound
It’s good to be / Alberta Bound. Our summer reading series continues this week with a special focus on the Province of Alberta, land of “the strong and the free”; of turquoise mountain lakes, vast...
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Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 3: Wrongfully Imprisoned
This week’s edition of our summer reading series brings you three incredible stories of men and women facing unexpected, shocking and painful adversity. We’ve grouped these under a theme of...
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Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 4: While You Were Sleeping
The fourth edition of our summer reading series borrows its title from a blockbuster 90s Sandra Bullock flick in which a woman falls in love with a man in a coma only to later fall for his...
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Lectures estivales de la Fondation: découvertes
Les magazines québécois se sont illustrés lors des derniers Prix du magazine canadien, en réalisant une impressionnante récolte de prix. Vous n’avez pas encore eu l’occasion de lire les textes primés?...
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Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 6: Oh. Canada?
The sixth serving of our summer reading series has a palpable WTF flavour to it; three stories that have the power to shock you through the sheer unlikelihood of their situations, the terrible...
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An Adventurous Literary Travel Itinerary (Summer Magazine Reading Series, No. 7)
Your intrepid Mag Awards blogger just returned from canoeing a great long river in Maine, where at dawn the moose pose in water while eating their grassy breakfast, and at dusk either the rain or the...
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Summer Reading Series 2: Great Essays from the NMA Archives
“What do I know?” asked Lewis Lapham. “The question distinguishes the essay from the less adventurous forms of expository prose—the dissertation, the polemic, the article, the campaign speech, the...
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Summer Reading Series 3: (Olympic) Sports & Recreation
Like hundreds of millions around the world, we watched the opening ceremonies of the London Olympic Games not only to see what Danny Boyle could do with $43-million and a top-hatted Kenneth Branagh,...
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