Criticism & Essays

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

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When Carol Shields died in 2003, she left behind a wealth of papers and unpublished material now housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.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

Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems

By Sylvia McAdam

Books by indigenous writers serve a special function in Canada. Not only do they preserve stories from within their originating communities, they help to disseminate ideas and opinions to the larger Canadian populace, thereby aiding ... Read More »

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

★ Me Artsy

By Drew Hayden Taylor; ed.

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

Burqa of Skin

By Nelly Arcan; Melissa Bull (trans.)

Writers cannot control how their work is read, and this becomes infinitely more complicated after writers take their own lives. Especially pretty, young iconoclasts who write about sex work. Quebec author Nelly Arcan, whose debut ... Read More »

February 19, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

By Mark Abley

In 2010, the top prize for Ottawa-area poets was changed from the Lampman-Scott Award back to its original name, the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. (The award had joined with the Duncan Campbell Scott Foundation ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution

By Peter Swirski

There is general agreement that the Internet is changing the way we think of literacy. It is also agreed that such change is inevitable. But the nature of the transformation we are now undergoing, and ... Read More »

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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