This is an excerpt from my 2011 book “Time and the Suburbs” published with ARP. I think there was a time when the hills around this city were indistinct enough. The problem is that you can drive out…

Many years ago I worked at a university in Montreal and became friends with an older professor who taught mediaeval philosophy. Before classes began each semester he would give me indecipherable hand-written notes to photocopy and digitize for…

Sometime in the morning dark I awoke to the clanging of a level crossing bell. Out the window of my berth I saw snow falling and heard the pitch of bells decline as the train moved through the…