What was it like spending part of your youth in the Yukon?
The things I remember are melting a bit. When ...
By Ian McGillis
Interviews
For a while in the '80s everyone was talking about Generation X. Surely you recall: they were brooding, ...
By Noel Rieder
A couple of Christmases back an enlightened gift-giver presented me with a copy of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: ...
By Ian McGillis
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms tells us that, in modern usage, the protagonist "has come to be ...
By Ian McGillis
One might as well get this out of the way, not to whet some crass appetite for hype, but simply to face the fact ...
By Carmine Starnino
Yann Martel is a writer with a firm but strictly one-handed grip on reality. And the other hand? Conjuring doves, ...
By Padma Viswanathan
Tess Fragoulis, whose new novel Ariadne's Dream is set in modern day Greece but includes the occasional cameo ...
By Joel Yanofsky
"All happy families are alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy. In her wonderfully ...
By Andrew Steinmetz
The story is already approaching popular legend status. Indeed, it won’t be surprising if future writers ...
By Ian McGillis
Most Montrealers who’ve read Jack Todd in The Gazette over the last dozen years or so, first as a city columnist, ...
By Joel Yanofsky
The Madame Paul Affair marks a turning point in the career of internationally acclaimed Montreal comic artist ...
By Andy Brown
Saul Bellow once said that writers seldom wish each other well. He was putting it mildly. Of Jack Kerouac's beat ...
By Joel Yanofsky