Border/Lines Magazine wins Utne Reader's award

[Ida Fong]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Canada's most progressive voice is internationally recognized

BORDER/LINES MAGAZINE is proud to announce it has been named the winner of
Utne Reader's 8th Annual Alternative Press Awards ('96). Category: "Cultural
Issues." The only Canadian winner among the honorees, Border/Lines is cited
as bridging "the too-wide gap between academic and popular magazines,
examining unlikely aspects of mass culture with humor, intelligence, and an
eye for sassy scholarship."

Highlights: Issue No. 40 on the newsstands now

> Constructing the Suspect: A brief history of the lie detector by Geoff Bunn
If you can't trust the machine, who or what can you trust?

> Sleeping With Eli by Julia Creet
The impact of Eli Langer's art instead of the court case.

> White Man's Burden by M. Nourbese Philip
How the mainstream media try to equate racism and anti-racism.

> MY Passport, MYself by Moustafa Bayoumi
Terrorism, travel and immigration in the aftermath of the World Trade Centre
bombing.

> Fidel Wakes Me Every Morning by Stan Fogel
On revolutionary fervour, or lack thereof, in Cuba.

> Nan Goldin Doing Drag and more

For further information please contact:
Julie Jenkinson at 416-921-6446
Fax: 416-921-3984
email: bord...@idirect.com