Shut Out
by Jennifer Hambleton
How Canadian university libraries used the Covid crisis to further limit public access
Monthly Archives: June, 2021
Shut Out
Sarah Berman’s Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
by Emily Donaldson
NXIVM exploded into public consciousness in 2017, when Canadian actress and ex-member Sarah Edmondson revealed…
Andrée A Michaud’s Mirror Lake
by James Grainger
For those readers not in the know, Andrée Michaud is a Quebecoise author whose…
Patricia Robertson’s Hour of the Crab
by Dancy Mason
Literature that self-consciously explores language is nothing new, but Patricia Robertson manages to articulate her…
Amanda Leduc’s The Centaur’s Wife
by Laura Cameron
When I was young, and an aspiring writer who loved putting words together but often…
Carrie Jenkins’ Victoria Sees It
by Paige Cooper
Carrie Jenkins—Cambridge-educated Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and author of three previous books on knowledge…
Pasha Malla’s Kill the Mall
by Alex Good
Kill the mall? But why, when in the wake of what’s been dubbed the retail…
Anna Porter’s The Appraisal and Deceptions
by Rohan Maitzen
“One of the advantages of a lifetime spent among tigers is that you are not…
Eli MacLaren’s Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books
by Bruce Whiteman
So many poets begin their publishing careers with a chapbook: Irving Layton and Margaret Atwood,…
Megan Durnford interviews Jocelyne Saucier
In Jocelyne Saucier’s fifth novel, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep (Coach House Books), an elderly…