A diagnosis of “Backstage Nurse” (1963) the first of W.E.D Ross’ 57 nurse-themed novels, written pseudonymously as Jane Rossiter.
Kevin Chong’s Vancouver-set, Camus-inspired novel uses dark humour to tap into present-day cultural anxieties.
How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change.
A caninocidal Hudson’s Bay Company is the villain in this Jack London-inspired tale by Canada’s greatest pulp-fiction writer.
It was author Russell Smith, I think, who made an astute observation in one of…
The death of a child is an experience that most of us—parents especially—cannot bear to…
“Why am I here?” John Roberts asks Martha, his wife of over fifty years, as…
It would be hard to overstate the chances Marianne Apostolides takes in her new memoir,…
Kingdom of Absence, Dennis Lee’s first book of poetry, was published fifty years ago in…
It would require a great bed of silence. We would be alone with the shadows,…