The world of Burning Sugar – the intimately powerful debut from Vancouver poet and activist Cicely Belle Blain – is, above all else, dynamic, always moving, tracing arcs and trajectories, modes of learning and loving. ... Read More »
In the introduction to his collection of interviews with celebrated Haitian-Canadian author Dany Laferrière, Adam Leith Gollner writes that his subject’s “narrators are always a version of himself.” There is no line that divides Laferrière’s ... Read More »
November 12, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Anyone who has ever attended a vigil on Dec. 6 knows that there’s a certain protocol to be followed when remembering the victims of the Montreal Massacre: speeches are made about gender-based violence, both in ... Read More »
November 9, 2020 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography
Old energy sources have become unsustainable. An alienated workforce agitates for systemic change. New technologies are manipulated to nefarious ends. And a world can no longer bear its own government’s kleptocracy. Science fiction is often ... Read More »
Scofflaw Phillip Boudreau of Isle Madame, off the southeast coast of Cape Breton, was the kind of guy who would threaten to burn down your house if he had a grudge. He’d steal your lobsters, ... Read More »
November 2, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
When The Seagull premiered in St. Petersburg on October 17, 1896, it was received so poorly playwright Anton Chekhov is reported to have fled the theatre to escape the boos and hisses that greeted the ... Read More »
October 29, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
In Newfoundland, tourists kiss the cod to become honorary citizens. In Paris, generations of lovers have chained padlocks onto the Pont des Arts as a sign of their everlasting affections. Although Nova Scotia may be ... Read More »
October 26, 2020 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Reviews
The French title of Ioana Georgescu’s third novel is La jetée. Elle s’appellera Mo. This translates roughly as “The pier. She will be called Mo.” Film buffs will recognize the nod to Chris Marker’s 1962 ... Read More »
October 22, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
The essay by author Antanas Sileika that opens the late John Bentley Mays’s previously unpublished final novel, The Occidental Hotel, is bracingly upfront in managing a reader’s expectations. “I cautioned John that many Canadian readers ... Read More »
October 19, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
“Truth is what you’ve experienced. It’s what you know.” So says Taylia Chatterjee, the first-person narrator of Australian-Canadian author Fariha Róisín’s debut novel. Taylia voices what has become a staple of postmodern, therapy-inspired philosophy: truth ... Read More »
October 15, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
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