At fifty I wrote Marrying & Burying, a memoir. Today, twenty-seven years later, in the middle of a pandemic, I…
Browsing: Essays
The writing life’s irreplaceable satisfactions.
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
Representing the climate crisis in fiction.
“Canada Reads” isn’t about literature, or discovering good books; it’s about what’s socially edifying, and new.
Tony Calzetta and Gabrielle de Montmollin’s move to Welland.
A small-press author contemplates archiving in the digital age.
Profound political and aesthetic shifts followed the departure of Montreal poetry’s heir apparent.
Bourgeois Anglo attitudes undercut the radicalism of Scott Symons’ 1967 gay novel, “Combat Journal for Place d’Armes.”