In his essay, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible,” John Berger writes, “The…
Genre has never been an impediment for writer, journalist, humourist, and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, the…
The Goddess of Fireflies and Under the Stone, published by Esplanade Books and Anvil Press, respectively, are part of a wave of Quebec fiction being translated into English by small presses…
A hard mauve cigarette case, Fabergé,
now leans against the back of a display
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The first bad Remembrance Day was 1984, the year Frank turned seventeen and his mother,…
I don’t know what to do with Corb Lund. If Ian Tyson weren’t alive, then…
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels, Vol. 16
Based on a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, André Alexis’ new novel, The Hidden Keys…
Of course the spirit of the age has to be present in any work of art. No author writes in a vacuum. The most dramatic current events are absorbed into a state of mind and turned into stories that address how they affect us.
From its title, borrowed off John Keats’ poem To Homer, to its young protagonist’s…