It has never been more crucial for game studies and game culture to revisit its “canonical” texts through the intersectional lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and class.
Prolific author and editor David Helwig dies at age 80
David Helwig, who died on Oct. 16 at 80 after a life marked by multiple debilitating health issues, was one of the most prolific and certainly one of the most versatile Canadian literary figures of the past 50 years.
Author and activist Patti LaBoucane-Benson appointed to the Senate
Edmonton educator and researcher Patti LaBoucane-Benson has been named one of three new appointees to the Canadian senate.
Septuagenarian Queen’s Park protester and author Ester Reiter “one of the best storytellers I know”
Between the Lines managing editor Amanda Crocker says working with Reiter was never boring.
Naomi Klein named Rutgers’ inaugural Gloria Steinem chair
Bestselling author Naomi Klein has been named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey.
Q&A: Canisia Lubrin speaks to Dionne Brand about her two new books, The Blue Clerk and Theory
Dionne Brand, one of the country’s most respected and beloved writers, returns this fall with two books: The Blue Clerk and Theory.
Friends and colleagues recall the joy and accomplishments of Priscila Uppal
The poet and essayist Canisia Lubrin expresses Uppal’s influence succinctly: “Priscilla Uppal saved me.”
Kidlit Spotlight Q&A: The collaboration between Kenneth Oppel and Sydney Smith was bound to be something special
Award-winning children’s book creators Kenneth Oppel and Sydney Smith talk about collaboration on their new title, Inkling – about an inkblot that escapes a sketchbook and shakes up a family of three – as well as tough topics in the book and what they would ask the inkblot to do for them.
Artist Connie Choi goes for emotion in her kidlit gamer illustrations
Connie Choi, a recent graduate of Toronto’s Sheridan College and a video-game artist for Sticky Brain Studios, talks about her process behind illustrating Annick Press’s video-game series, Cross Ups.
After seven years and 50,000 photographs, Caitlin Cronenberg and Jessica Ennis unveil art book The Endings
Chronicle Books has collected photographer Caitlin Cronenberg and set designer Jessica Ennis’s secret photo shoots with fascinating female actors into the hardcover collection The Endings: Photographic Stories of Love, Loss, Heartbreak, and Beginning Again.
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