My Conversations with Canadians

To read Lee Maracle’s My Conversations with Canadians and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Blank back-to-back is to confront the very real possibility that Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in a moral universe whose long arc bends ... Read More »

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Blank: Essays and Interviews

By M. NourbeSe Philip

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Afterwork: Essays on Literature and Beauty

By Anne Compton

Governor General’s Literary Award–winning poet Anne Compton’s latest book is a collection of essays surveying the writer’s life and interests, all bound by Compton’s lyric voice. Afterwork begins with an essay on the first summer ... Read More »

October 3, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By Scaachi Koul

Based on the conversational style, cultural relevance, and range of her work – which encompasses everything from current events newspieces to pop-culture listicles to personal essays, often about her family or Indian heritage – Toronto ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Where the Truth Lies: Selected Essays

By Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe, admired and revered for both his fiction and non-fiction, has been writing for publication since the 1950s. In that time, he has naturally accumulated drawers full of fugitive pieces: lectures, talks, prefaces, newspaper ... Read More »

January 26, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

By Carrie Jenkins

We talk about love a lot. Despite our mass obsession, however, love remains a subject that has largely evaded scientific, sociological, and philosophical study. Unless it’s wrapped in a Hollywood rom-com starring Sandra Bullock, we’re ... Read More »

January 20, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help

★ Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

By Erin Wunker

Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Men Explain Things to Me and Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist opened the floodgates for a spate of similar works from writers ruminating on the exasperating experience of being female in today’s ... Read More »

September 28, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

By Elizabeth Groeneveld

In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »

July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs

Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

By Carol Shields; Anne Giardini (ed.); Nicholas Giardini (ed.)

When Carol Shields died in 2003, she left behind a wealth of papers and unpublished material now housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. One of Canada’s pre-eminent novelists (the word “beloved” frequently accompanies ... Read More »

March 7, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts On Awful Things

By Charles Demers

“You must make a friend of horror,” said Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, and Charles Demers has taken his advice. In his new book, the comedian and sometime CBC Radio star cozies up to subjects ... Read More »

December 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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