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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.
Browsing: Essays
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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.
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The Man Who Wasn’t There:
The Claude Jutra legacy, a year after the scandal
by Matthew Hays
The Claude Jutra legacy, a year after the scandal
by Matthew Hays
Allegations of child sexual assault against the late Quebec director failed to spark necessary conversations about pedophilia and acts of public veneration.
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Paris Confessions
by Deborah Dundas
by Deborah Dundas
Confessing my sins to an anonymous priest at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral was a much more public experience than I imagined it would be…