Features
Commies in Canada
Laurie Lewis has written a smart, concise and humourous memoir about being a "little comrade" in Canada during the McCarthy era. Read more
Greatest Dreams
The new chapbook from the Writers' Exchange promises to reveal its contributors' (elementary school kids) greatest dreams. Read more
Fear and Loathing in Upper Canada
In the 1800s, many young women came to Canada from Ireland but not many of them fell in love with black men who had fled north via the underground railway. Read more
Double or Nothing: hard to resist
Have you ever wanted to take a wild ride inside the mind of a teenager, a teenager who’s a compulsive gambler? Read more
Ian McEwan, what are ya doin'?
A cranky reader on Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan Read more
Books in the House
How many books are you reading right now and in what rooms? Read more
Madeleine Thien: Dogs at the Perimeter
Is there any part of us that lasts, that is incorruptible, the absolute centre of who we are?” Read more
Jeanette Winterson: Happy, Not Normal
The pursuit of happiness requires "a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream." Read more