
by Michel Basilières
The publisher of Réjean Ducharme’s debut novel, L’avalée des avalés, isn’t exaggerating in claiming that this first Canadian English translation…
The publisher of Réjean Ducharme’s debut novel, L’avalée des avalés, isn’t exaggerating in claiming that this first Canadian English translation…
There are two words on the cover of Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee that strike a discordant note in retrospect. Not…
Ubiquitous greeting-card racks promote lofty sentiments about friendship, romance, and marriage (i.e., “Your presence makes life worth living!”), but even…
Just what are the police for? With recent calls for their defunding (whatever that may mean) it’s a question that’s…
“Some viruses have envelopes. Some letters are best left unopened. Now my mother is on the phone telling me to…
Arielle Twist’s elegant debut ends with a powerful postscript: “Ah-hay, my Indigiqueer and Two- Spirit kin, this is for…
Our first warnings about the internet’s impact grew out of our personal experience of it. You didn’t need any technical…
“Ill at ease”: that’s the phrase, antique but applicable. With Sophie Bienvenu’s one-of-a-kind Worst Case, We Get Married I found…
Samantha Heather Mackey isn’t like the other MFA students at Warren University, an Ivy-League school in a seemingly quaint New…
In John Miller’s third novel, two women from divergent backgrounds find themselves on the streets of Toronto working in the sex trade.