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Farewell to Quebec

<figure id="attachment_374304" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-374304" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-374304" title="Al Capp comic" src="https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM.png" alt="" width="660" height="415" srcset="https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM.png 660w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-300x188.png 300w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-360x226.png 360w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-120x75.png 120w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-510x320.png 510w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-270x169.png 270w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-572x360.png 572w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-123x77.png 123w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-273x171.png 273w, https://cms.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen-shot-2013-04-19-at-11.21.20-AM-650x408.png 650w" sizes="(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-374304" class="wp-caption-text">Once the most famous comic-strip artist in the America, Capp created &#39;Li&#39;l Abner&#39; (Capp Enterprises)</figcaption></figure>
Our latest book reviews:
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/what-ever-happened-to-al-capp/">Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary</a>, by Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen, review by Jaime J. Weinman</li>
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/18/drunk-mom-a-memoir/">Drunk Mom: A Memoir</a>,&nbsp;by Jowita Bydlowska, review by Anne Kingston</li>
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/15/how-anne-carson-makes-us-wish-we-were-smarter/">Red Doc&gt;</a>, Anne Carson, review by Brian D. Johnson</li>
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-unchangeable-spots-of-leopards/">The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards</a>,&nbsp;by Kristopher Jansma, review by&nbsp;Richard Warnica</li>
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/the-hungry-ghosts/">The Hungry Ghosts</a>, by Shyam Selvadurai, review by&nbsp;Dafna Izenberg</li>
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<li><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/19/a-death-in-the-lucky-holiday-hotel-murder-money-and-an-epic-power-struggle-in-china/">A&nbsp;Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China</a>,&nbsp;by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang, review by Brian Bethune</li>
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38-year-old homeless tour guide Karim stands at the Prague&#8217;s main railway station during his tour in Prague November 20, 2012. Karim works for a student-run tour agency Pragulic as a tour guide that shows tourists the sides of Prague that sightseers would normally avoid. Picture taken November 20, 2012. To match CZECH-HOMELESS/TOUR REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC &#8211; Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY TRAVEL)

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