Of course the spirit of the age has to be present in any work of art. No author writes in a vacuum. The most dramatic current events are absorbed into a state of mind and turned into stories that address how they affect us.
From its title, borrowed off John Keats’ poem To Homer, to its young protagonist’s obsessive plans to follow in…
For several decades now, McGill professor Robert Lecker has been one of the best academic commentators on the CanLit profession. That…
For fans of Canadian literary fiction, fan-fiction, grunge, Nirvana, and pop music in general, the arrival of Lynn Crosbie’s Where…
We all know Chekhov’s principle of dramatic parsimony: if a gun is introduced in the first part of a story…
Do you want to be a tourist or do you want to be a traveller? It’s a question that…
Claiming powers of prophecy, mystery, and liberation for art is distinctly unfashionable in today’s cynical, overstimulated world. In Reclaiming Art…
Mike Steeves’ debut novel, Giving Up, takes readers inside a tense relationship. It has three sections focusing on events that…
I don’t know whether there is any such thing as a “normal career” among Canadian poets, but if there is,…
The Poet’s Measure “…he has outgrown us and deserves an international readership.” —Carmine Starnino I’ve chosen to write about new…
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