Joel Yanofsky grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Jewish neighbourhood ...
By Juan Rodriguez
Interviews
If you've spent any time in NDG, particularly the less gentrified part
south of Monkland Village commonly ...
By Joel Yanofsky
"The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room." Blaise Pascal ...
By Ian McGillis
Volta begins with the warning of "widespread damage." It's never made clear what the damage is, but the ...
By Carmine Starnino
What was it like spending part of your youth in the Yukon?
The things I remember are melting a bit. When ...
By Ian McGillis
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