Interviews

The Sentimentalists

The Sentimentalists

Montreal writer Johanna Skibsrud's last name couldn't be more appropriate. It is Norwegian, she told me recently ...

By Claire Holden Rothman

Because I Have Loved and Hidden It

Because I Have Loved and Hidden It

St-Laurent Boulevard's Salon b is a second-story café which overlooks a funeral home. It is strangely fitting that ...

By Fiona O'Connor

Heading South

Heading South

It's 3 p.m. sharp when Dany Laferrière walks into La Bohême on St-Denis, the precise hour we'd agreed to meet and ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Depth of Field

Depth of Field

Michael Blair's latest novel in the Granville Island series is an engaging mystery, one that the reader can't put ...

By Elspeth Redmond

The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist, Claire Holden Rothman's first novel, is a book to curl up with on rainy evenings - ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Mafiaboy

Mafiaboy

Before internet was high speed and most computers were portable, a 15-year-old boy shut down CNN.ca, Yahoo!, ...

By Nisa Malli

Mother Superior

The wounded characters in Mother Superior, Saleema Nawaz's debut short fiction collection, wander the ...

By Aparna Sanyal

Squishy

It's not necessarily the contents of your resume that determine how your life will pan out. Something as simple as ...

By David Ravensbergen

35 Up

35 Up

In the spring of 1973, a fresh-faced graduate looking only for steady work-not a steady income, let alone a ...

By Adam Goldman

Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach

A friend recently expressed concern that his parents were spending too much time watching TV rather than getting ...

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What if red ran out

What if red ran out

There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, What if red ran out, which, despite ...

By Aparna Sanyal