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It’s An Honour Just To Be Nominated, Probably
by Jared Young
by Jared Young
A presumptuous nominee on the hubris, and shame, of Giller Prize forensics.
Author Emily Donaldson
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To Serve, and To Serve and Protect
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
Frances Shelley Wees’ Toronto-set 1958 mystery revolves around the disappearance of a sweet but dull-witted teenaged domestic servant.
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Driving Theatre
by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
When it comes to the rules of the road, don’t let the movies be your guide.
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Considering Drake’s Poetics
by E Martin Nolan
by E Martin Nolan
While not devoid of poetic merit, Drake’s songs are designed to be hits that can bear repeated, but not necessarily close, listening. The question with such a strategy is to what extent lyrical content matters.
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Jeff Bursey’s Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews
by Alex Good
by Alex Good
Many years ago, as a graduate student of English, I was told something about where the discipline was headed by…
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George Elliott Clarke’s Gold
by Jim Johnstone
by Jim Johnstone
If I had been asked to hand out medals to Canadian poets at the starting blocks of the new century, George Elliott Clarke would have been a contender for gold…
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Michael Helm interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Michael Helm’s novel After James (McClelland & Stewart) was published this September to widespread critical acclaim. Ambitious and virtuosic, it’s a…
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Marc Bell interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Marc Bell was asked to design the cover for this year’s Best American Comics anthology. Brad de Roo spoke to him about the process.
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Drew Hayden Taylor interviewed
by Brad de Roo
by Brad de Roo
Genre has never been an impediment for writer, journalist, humourist, and playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, the “blue-eyed Ojibway” whose almost 30 books include…
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How The West Was Sung: Corb Lund’s Alberta
by Anthony Easton
by Anthony Easton
I don’t know what to do with Corb Lund. If Ian Tyson weren’t alive, then he might be the only…