In Nathan Whitlock’s sharply funny second novel, Jeremy is the owner of The Ice Shack, an unassuming neighbourhood restaurant-bar in…
Many years ago, as a graduate student of English, I was told something about where the discipline was headed by…
If I had been asked to hand out medals to Canadian poets at the starting blocks of the new century, George Elliott Clarke would have been a contender for gold…
The Goddess of Fireflies and Under the Stone, published by Esplanade Books and Anvil Press, respectively, are part of a wave of Quebec fiction being translated into English by small presses…
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…