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Dear Patient
A woman, hoping to find peace, seeks her birth mother in By Blood by Ellen Ullman. more »
May 15, 2013 by Jesmine Cham in Reviews (1 Comments)
Licorice Roots
A writer uncovers a family connection with a sweet English confection. more »
May 8, 2013 by Robert Everett-Green in Dispatches
Magenta Soul Whip
Daniel Zomparelli reviews Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson (Coach House). more »
Apr 18, 2013 by Daniel Zomparelli in Reviews
Yesno
Daniel Zomparelli reviews Yesno by Dennis Lee (Anansi). more »
Apr 18, 2013 by Daniel Zomparelli in Reviews
Aethel
Daniel Zomparelli reviews AEthel by Donato Mancini (New Star). more »
Apr 18, 2013 by Daniel Zomparelli in Reviews
Suicide Psalms
Daniel Zomparelli reviews Suicide Psalms by Mari-Lou Rowley (Anvil Press). more »
Apr 18, 2013 by Daniel Zomparelli in Reviews
Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry
Daniel Zomparelli reviews Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry edited by Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch (Mother Tongue). more »
Apr 18, 2013 by Daniel Zomparelli in Reviews
Dividing Lines
Jennesia Pedri reviews Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello di Cintio (Goose Lane). more »
Apr 17, 2013 by Jennesia Pedri in Reviews
Hunting Lodge
The Hunting Lodge is one of a series of annual photography events. more »
Apr 17, 2013 by Daryl Kirkham, Michal Kozlowski, Meagan Schafer in Photography
Pioneer Justice
In 1884 two teenage boys watched as another—an Aboriginal named Louie Sam—was hanged by a group of men who rode on horseback. more »
Apr 9, 2013 by Patty Osborne in Reviews
Coming Ashore
The dog turns his butt to the stinging spray and wind but my boyfriend and I face the water, watching the massive waves crash on the shore. We are drenched in seconds and we have to shout over the wind. It’s exhilarating. more »
Mar 28, 2013 by Christy Ann Conlin in Dispatches
Ethical Juices
Parables, cautionary tales, morality plays, allegories—the notion that we can study literary works as texts of ethics is as old as literature. more »
Mar 28, 2013 by Annabel Lyon in Columns
Boarding with Mrs. Higgins
Mrs. Higgins lived with her legless brother and her blind husband in a tall, narrow old house in Nottingham. The room I rented from her in the 1950s was just below her sitting room, where she kept a life-size portrait of Lenin. more »
Mar 28, 2013 by Margaret Malloch Zielinski in Dispatches (1 Comments)
Next Door Café: The Poem
A poem "with cautious, slightly energy-sapped enjambments" recreates a bar's atmosphere and patrons. more »
Mar 28, 2013 by Carmine Starnino in Poetry (1 Comments)
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Next Door Café: A Poet's Musings
Reflections on how a bar in Parc Extension, QC, influenced an eponymous poem about "unprogress, inertia, the failure to learn from mistakes." more »
Mar 27, 2013 by Carmine Starnino in Columns
Real World Happiness
Norbert Ruebsaat learns that true happiness requires “an ability to live with ambiguity and tolerate a certain degree of physical humour” in Brian Fawcett's memoir, Human Happiness. more »
Mar 20, 2013 by Norbert Ruebsaat in Reviews
Cottonopolis
"A rookery of dead ends and curved lanes. Everywhere heaps of debris. Pigs rooting in eyes." Explore Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, in poem. more »
Mar 13, 2013 by Rachel Lebowitz in Dispatches
Pinspotting
"I hope you will agree that we more sensitive teenagers grew up surrounded by irony." Jill Mandrake calls George Bowering's memoir his most provocative work yet. more »
Mar 6, 2013 by Jill Mandrake in Reviews
Mandelbrot. Broadway SkyTrain Station, Vancouver.
Dancing with Dynamite
Public bombings have a profound effect on cities, even if the bomb is a coconut filled with beans and rice. more »
Mar 2, 2013 by Stephen Osborne in Dispatches (1 Comments)
Literary Lives
Diana Athill never dreamed of writing—until one morning, suddenly she wrote. "Until that moment I had been hand-maiden, as editor, to other people’s writing, without ever dreaming of myself as a writer." more »
Feb 28, 2013 by Michael Hayward in Reviews (1 Comments)
