Over the counter of a chic yet affordable Westmount café, men are making and drinking coffee and discussing the ...
By Saleema Nawaz
Interviews
A few years ago, Ian Ferrier of the Quebec Writers' Federation, Simon Dardick of the Association of ...
By Margaret Goldik
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
In commending V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Prize-winning novel In A Free State in 2001, the Swedish Academy ...
By Neil Scotten
Every good bohemia needs its chroniclers, people who are of the scene but in crucial ways a little outside it too. ...
By Ian McGillis
It's an unusually muggy September afternoon when I set out to meet with Martine Desjardins. In downtown Montreal ...
By Kimberly Bourgeois
When you hear the word "vacation," what do you think of? Beaches and warm water, nice hotels with ...
By Ian McGillis
Joyce Scharf used to make up bedtime stories for her now teenaged daughter, Grace. "Coming up with a new story ...
By Anne Chudobiak
Why YA? It's a question many writers working in the genre of Young Adult literature have had to contend with. ...
By Andrea Belcham
"It's strange talking about yourself," says Neil Smith as we sit down in Mile End's Arts Cafe to talk about him. ...
By Ian McGillis
Missing the Ark represents a return to beginnings for the Mile End-based writer and spoken-word artist ...
By Andrea Belcham
"Why not?"
A dangerous question, glimmering with risk and possibility, but one Montreal novelist Anita Rau ...
By Ami Sands Brodoff