John Metcalf and Fraser Sutherland review Nick Mount’s cultural history of the mid-twentieth-century CanLit boom.
Browsing: CanLit
The flawed-but-canonical literature series is dead, apparently.
Benge Atlee’s thriller “Black Feather” (1939) was intended as escapist fiction—then history got in the way.
In his funny, astute essay, Jared Young probes notions of masculinity and national identity via Russell Smith’s self-defeating male characters.
Why Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel remains an uncannily courageous, weird, and potentially explosive work.
Two months before Canada was to host the G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto, Conservative…