Browsing: Essays
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It All Adds Up
by Rod Moody-Corbett
by Rod Moody-Corbett
Saul Bellow’s oft-downplayed Canadianness is key to his best fiction
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No Country for Old Books
by Brian Busby
by Brian Busby
“Canada Reads” isn’t about literature, or discovering good books; it’s about what’s socially edifying, and new.
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Will Anybody Care? by Mark Sampson
A small-press author contemplates archiving in the digital age.
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Montreal Poetry After Leonard Cohen
by Derek Webster
by Derek Webster
Profound political and aesthetic shifts followed the departure of Montreal poetry’s heir apparent.
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Exile and Coming
by Jonathan Valelly
by Jonathan Valelly
Bourgeois Anglo attitudes undercut the radicalism of Scott Symons’ 1967 gay novel, “Combat Journal for Place d’Armes.”
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Hey Porter
by Cecil Foster
by Cecil Foster
How Canada’s Black sleeping-car porters became agents of social change.
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The Goddamn [Opera] Is Dead!
by Monique Giroux
by Monique Giroux
How the Canadian Opera Company’s 2017 re-staging of the opera “Louis Riel” continued a legacy of marginalization and forgetting
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For All Its Faults:
Remembering the New Canadian Library
by Brian Busby
Remembering the New Canadian Library
by Brian Busby
The flawed-but-canonical literature series is dead, apparently.