On Feb. 7, 2019, The Globe and Mail published a front-page story alleging inappropriate influence from members of the Prime Minister’s Office – up to and including the PM, Justin Trudeau – with the intent ... Read More »
April 15, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
On Feb. 7, 2019, The Globe and Mail published a front-page story alleging inappropriate influence from members of the Prime Minister’s Office – up to and including the PM, Justin Trudeau – with the intent ... Read More »
April 15, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
“Avant-garde writing in English Canada has never enjoyed much more than a token degree of prestige among the literati of this country,” write Gregory Betts and Christian Bök in the introduction to their recent critical ... Read More »
April 11, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
In the prose poem “ADIDAS,” from Domenica Martinello’s debut collection, the speaker asks: “If you are the siren why do you balk at rebranding? A hot iron can turn a sea cow into iconography. Split-tailed, ... Read More »
April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry
In the prose poem “ADIDAS,” from Domenica Martinello’s debut collection, the speaker asks: “If you are the siren why do you balk at rebranding? A hot iron can turn a sea cow into iconography. Split-tailed, ... Read More »
April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Poetry
As calendar year 2019 dawned, political junkies were staring in wonder at the pitched battle raging between U.S. president Donald Trump and incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Literary junkies, on the other hand, ... Read More »
April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
If you are the sort of person who is delighted by the mere existence of a book about historical programming on the CBC, then you will likely find much to recommend in Monica MacDonald’s Recasting ... Read More »
April 8, 2019 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Reviews
Anthony De Sa’s previous books – the Scotiabank Giller Prize–nominated story collection Barnacle Love and the novel Kicking the Sky – both examined the experiences of Portuguese immigrants in and around the Toronto neighbourhood where ... Read More »
April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
The fact that Richard Van Camp doesn’t have his own national radio show, à la the late Stuart McLean, is a bit of a disappointment. Van Camp is Canada’s greatest oral storyteller, a brilliant weaver ... Read More »
April 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
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