Interviews

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

Love, Ms. Julie

Love, Ms. Julie

A few years ago, Ian Ferrier of the Quebec Writers' Federation, Simon Dardick of the Association of ...

By Margaret Goldik

The Desert Lake

The Desert Lake

Ice pellets are raining down on Montreal the afternoon I arrive at Linda Leith's home in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce - a ...

By Faustus Salvador

Chef

In commending V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize-winning novel In A Free State in 2001, the Swedish Academy ...

By Neil Scotten

A Fine Ending

Every good bohemia needs its chroniclers, people who are of the scene but in crucial ways a little outside it too. ...

By Ian McGillis

A Covenant of Salt

It's an unusually muggy September afternoon when I set out to meet with Martine Desjardins. In downtown Montreal ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Travels with My Family

When you hear the word "vacation," what do you think of? Beaches and warm water, nice hotels with ...

By Ian McGillis

Grace and the Ice Prince

Joyce Scharf used to make up bedtime stories for her now teenaged daughter, Grace. "Coming up with a new story ...

By Anne Chudobiak