Criticism & Essays

If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display

If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display, the wonderfully odd new collection from Fredericton writer, editor, and poet Nick Thran, is ostensibly rooted in the world of bookstores and booksellers, but ... Read More »

April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Anthologies, Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews

Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk

By John Brady McDonald

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

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