When I was young, and an aspiring writer who loved putting words together but often struggled to come up with…
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Carrie Jenkins—Cambridge-educated Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and author of three previous books on knowledge of arithmetic, the nature of…
Kill the mall? But why, when in the wake of what’s been dubbed the retail apocalypse, the mall is already…
“One of the advantages of a lifetime spent among tigers is that you are not disappointed when they act like…
So many poets begin their publishing careers with a chapbook: Irving Layton and Margaret Atwood, W B Yeats and Ezra…
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…