Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni idolizes his Dad, his stories, his old “Indian” tricks, and his perilous adventures.
By Ami Sands Brodoff
Interviews
It’s clear that Goliath never got a fair shake in the telling, whether in the Old Testament or in the many subsequent versions. But now, after a mere couple of millennia, he has, thanks to Scottish cartoonist Tom Gauld. Better late than never.
By Ian McGillis
When you sit down to talk books with Daniel Allen Cox, you’re never quite sure what’s going to happen, all you can be sure of is that it’s going to be interesting.
By Rob Sherren
After interviewing Taras Grescoe for our blog, Leila Marshy writes an ode to public transport.
By Leila Marshy
For Straphanger, Grescoe did the dirty work that too many of us in North America shun: he rode urban buses, subways, and trains in a dozen countries.
By Leila Marshy
An award-winning poet, anthologist, and teacher, Queyras took a decade to write Autobiography of Childhood.
By Marianne Ackerman
Big Questions is the culmination of 15 years worth of work by graphic novelist Anders Nilsen.
By Lori Callaghan
There is no shortage of pro-hockey literature; maybe the time is ripe for some wholly dissenting voices.
By Ian McGillis
To catnap or not to catnap, that is often the life-or-death question in Tjia’s latest creation.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Green pepper aficionados, weekend brunchers, and self-identified foodies beware: Jonah Campbell has no love for you.
By Andrea Belcham
Adam Gopnik has been reliably surprising us for so long now that there might be a danger of taking him for granted. Step back a bit from his work, though, and it becomes clear just how unusual the fifty-five year-old’s approach is.
By Ian McGillis
In the 1960s and 1970s, “Canada’s toughest neighbourhood” was neglected, disenfranchised, and prone to outbreaks of fire, roaches, and gangs of kids warring over territory. It was also Dobson’s childhood home.
By Anna Leventhal