April 26, 2023 | Filed under: Anthologies, Criticism & Essays, Fiction: Short, Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Reviews
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 »
From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and ... Read More »
April 12, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is currently touring event centres across Europe and North America (including a stop in Toronto this spring), promising a “life-size, up-close, never-before-seen perspective” of one of the world’s most celebrated ... Read More »
March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History, Memoir & Biography
In the fall of 2014, Sally Lane’s son called to tell her he was in Syria. Eighteen years old at the time, Jack Letts was a recent convert to Islam and, according to Lane, idealistic ... Read More »
January 25, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs
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
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
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
Alessandra Naccarato grew up worrying about climate change. As a child in the 1990s, she was consumed by thoughts about endangered species, holes in the ozone layer, and how she might survive what she calls ... Read More »
December 7, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment, Social Sciences
While still an adolescent living in Israel, Moshe Safdie once received a report card in which his teacher wrote: “Moshe is unable to control his spirits.” Now, in his 80s, Safdie still cannot be contained, ... Read More »
November 22, 2022 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography
Jamal Saeed’s memoir My Road from Damascus begins not in Damascus, but in a small village in northern Syria named Kfarieh (often spelled as Kafriyah) several hours away from the capital. Saeed spends the ... Read More »
November 2, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography