Judith McCormack’s The Singing Forest is a reflective legal novel, one that spends more time in the personal history of…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Poverty isn’t just an economic category, its also an insidious means of exclusion.
Brett Josef Grubisic has written gay male pulp for more than a decade, and edited the landmark collections Contra/Diction, and…
Toronto’s roughest neighbourhoods live on, but mainly in its fiction.
I’m generally wary of epigraphs. When they aren’t signalling “You’re in some seriously erudite hands here, reader” they often just…
Montreal’s late, great mid-century journal of vice.
Despite his roots in Romantic and Neo-Romantic poetry (his PhD dissertation was on Dylan Thomas), Don McKay’s poetry almost from…
How we write ourselves.
A seasoned literary critic, André Forget recently made his literary fiction debut with In the City of Pigs (Dundurn Press),…
Inevitably, the implicit subtitle that comes to mind for Miriam Toews’ new novel, Fight Night, is Girl Talking. Fight Night…