October 2010
She had eyes you could get lost in and the kind of voice bankers leave their wives for, so when she asked me if I would take the case, how could I refuse? It didn't hurt that there was some money in it for me, too. The case? To dig into the life of a man who'd been dead for forty-two years.
October 2010
Simon Brault is CEO of the National Theatre School and Vice-Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts. He has been ...
October 2010
Someone reading People magazine might conclude that Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock run Hollywood. While they ...
July 2010
Ishmael Reed’s Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers offers many prescient ...
July 2010
"Be an international writer who happens to be a Filipino,” says a senior writer to an aspiring one in Miguel ...
July 2010
Holly Dressel calls them the “green techies”: the researchers who herald newfangled technologies to solve ...
July 2010
Say what you will about the state of Canadian novels – a subject that elicits sharp opinions from the minority of ...
April 2010
For all but the youngest residents of Montreal, the events and images are still vivid: millions of people without ...
April 2010
Montreal writer Johanna Skibsrud's last name couldn't be more appropriate. It is Norwegian, she told me recently ...
October 2009
St-Laurent Boulevard's Salon b is a second-story café which overlooks a funeral home. It is strangely fitting that ...
October 2009
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 ...
July 2009
Michael Blair's latest novel in the Granville Island series is an engaging mystery, one that the reader can't put ...
