Willr Bird News Today

By Jean-François Born When preparing for a trip to Scotland and the Northumberland region of northern England with my family, I decided to consult the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to see if any Canadian military personnel were buried in Alnwick, where we were planning to visit my wife’s relatives. I found…

Familial and fraternal hauntings have long been central to the stories we tell, from Enkidu’s ghost in The Epic of Gilgamesh to Odysseus conferring with his slain brother-in-arms Achilles to Banquo’s discarnate presence in Macbeth to Wuthering Heights’s sorrowful Catherine. More recently, there’s erratic detective John River, who confers with his newly dead partner, Stevie, in the television series River. In the nineteenth century, such fictive imaginings were often based on real lo...