What was Canadian literature?
That’s the question Stephen Marche asks in a provocative essay at Partisan Magazine. It’s a…
Monthly Archives: April, 2015
Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
by Nick Maandag
From CNQ 92 (Spring 2015)
A school bus is no place for a reader
In a story that might have been taken from The Onion, but which instead is…
Pop-op books
Over at the Washington Post, music critic Chris Richards asks why there is such a…
The great divide
Just as with most sectors of the economy, rich writers are getting richer and the…
Peak book?
Over at the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks wonders whether we’ve reached a…
Not dead yet
Are paper books, the kind you don’t read on screens, making a comeback? Not quite,…
To M.F.A. or not to M.F.A.?
That seems to be the hot question. So hot that it’s been much in the…
Griffin nominations
The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced its 2015 shortlist. The Canadian finalists are: Congotronic, Shane…
Colour me a bestseller
According to reports, adult colouring books are now among the top bestsellers on Amazon. As…