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  • I wrote a book about mortality then a health scare changed my life.

    April 7th, 2023 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-i-wrote-a-book-about-mortality-then-a-health-scare-changed-my/ In late 2018, I was diagnosed with coronary disease. That December I had five stents put into my heart, a procedure known as angioplasty. The following summer, one of the stents collapsed, and had to be replaced. That is called restenting. At the time, I was writing a book about my…

  • Ulysses is a story of solidarity with ordinary people living ordinary

    Published February 4th, 2022 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-ulysses-is-a-story-of-solidarity-with-ordinary-people-living-ordinary/ Author James Joyce. Over the holidays I gave a copy of Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport to a friend. The British novel was published in North America in 2019 by the Canadian press Biblioasis. It has been a wild success – about 48,000 copies sold so far. Ducks, Newburyport is more than 1,000 pages, 98…

  • After the massacre remembering Tianamen Square 30 years later

    Published May 31, 2019 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-after-the-massacre-remembering-tiananmen-square-30-years-later/ Charles Foran is the author of 11 books, including House on Fire and Join the Revolution, Comrade. He lived in Beijing from 1988 to 1990. In the 30 years since the Chinese army killed hundreds of students and protesters in the streets of Beijing, commemorations of the Tiananmen Square massacre have lost some of…