Criticism & Essays

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk

In this new collection of essays, readers will find personal observations, commentaries, and essays by a Nêhiyaw (Cree) and Métis warrior, Knowledge Carrier, and Otacimow (storyteller) who, as a child, was given the same moniker ... Read More »

January 18, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Indigenous Peoples, Memoir & Biography

Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By Jen Sookfong Lee

Pop culture is powerful. Our shared experiences can foster a sense of collective belonging, while just as quickly isolate and traumatize. Consider the divisive social and political issues exposed by some of 2022’s biggest cultural ... Read More »

January 11, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography

A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form

By Molly Peacock

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, but also Charlotte Bronte ... Read More »

December 14, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Poetry

The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era

By Harold R. Johnson

“Come sit by the fire” has long been an invitation to hear a story, to gather as a community as the light dims to listen and learn together. Two of our master storytellers, Harold R. ... Read More »

November 30, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples, Reference

Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions

By Tomson Highway

November 30, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples, Reference

What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings

By John Lorinc (ed.) and Meegan Lim (ill.); Karon Liu (intro.)

Sometimes when we talk about dumplings, we argue. What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings is a collection of essays from journalists, food historians, and other writers for whom dumplings are a ... Read More »

November 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Food & Drink

Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf

By Sina Queyras

Each chapter of Sina Queyras’s Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf opens by revisiting the corresponding chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For example: But, you may say, we asked you to speak about ... Read More »

June 15, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Blue Portugal and Other Essays

By Theresa Kishkan

Early in Tanis MacDonald’s new essay collection, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, the author asserts that stories about walking have largely been the domain of a certain kind of writer on a certain kind ... Read More »

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

By Tanis MacDonald

May 17, 2022 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

This Strange Visible Air: Essays on Aging and the Writing Life

By Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala bookends her new essay collection with ruminations on the plight of the elderly in contemporary society. Railing against ageism in the opening essay, Butala laments that in the industrialized West of the 21st ... Read More »

November 29, 2021 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

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