
by Bruce Whiteman
Ralph and Betty Gustafson loved Chinese food. Perhaps there was no Chinese restaurant in North Hatley, the small town in…
Ralph and Betty Gustafson loved Chinese food. Perhaps there was no Chinese restaurant in North Hatley, the small town in…
I was working in a second-hand bookstore on Toronto’s Queen Street West—still a funky, grungy street in 1982—when someone walked…
Jack London’s epistolary relationship with Canadian socialist agitator Wilfrid Gribble
At fifty I wrote Marrying & Burying, a memoir. Today, twenty-seven years later, in the middle of a pandemic, I…
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
“Canada Reads” isn’t about literature, or discovering good books; it’s about what’s socially edifying, and new.