Ralph and Betty Gustafson loved Chinese food. Perhaps there was no Chinese restaurant in North Hatley, the small town in…
I was working in a second-hand bookstore on Toronto’s Queen Street West—still a funky, grungy street in 1982—when someone walked…
Jack London’s epistolary relationship with Canadian socialist agitator Wilfrid Gribble
At fifty I wrote Marrying & Burying, a memoir. Today, twenty-seven years later, in the middle of a pandemic, I…
As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee…
Saul Bellow’s oft-downplayed Canadianness is key to his best fiction
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