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# NOTES & DISPATCHES

## Reading in Summer

STEPHEN OSBORNE

Where in the used bookstore would mysteries by Raymond Chandler be shelved—in Novels, or in Fiction?

## National Boyfriend

CHELSEA NOVAK

“Are you single?” a woman called out. “I don’t know how to answer that,” said Strombo

## Oh, Canada

MICHAEL TURNER

A US curator of Canadian art exoticizes Canadian artists while suggesting that they are un-exotic

## Hernia Heaven

THAD MCILROY

There’s probably no better place in the world to get a hernia repaired. —Atul Gawande on the Shouldice Hospital, The New Yorker