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

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

Isolated Incident

By Mariam Pirbhai

An anonymous individual approaches a nondescript storefront in a strip mall in Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood that houses a mosque. They smash its windows, its entrance door, and dent the sign above it. With red ... Read More »

November 23, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture

By Moshe Safdie

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

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

In the Name of Wild: One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness

By Phillip and April Vannini with Autumn Vannini

“Wild” and “wildness” have been used, and overused, to describe everything from adventure parks to cosmetics companies, and because of this it has become a challenge to define the words. Wilderness depicted in overhead ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment, Travel

My Indian Summer

By Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Family doesn’t always mean blood, and blood doesn’t always mean family – 12-year-old Hunter, who is desperate to follow his older sister out of the tiny British Columbia town of Red Rock and escape his ... Read More »

November 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Road from Damascus

By Jamal Saeed

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

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