Interviews

In The Poetry Pavilion

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

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Yann Martel is a writer with a firm but strictly one-handed grip on reality. And the other hand? Conjuring doves, ...

By Padma Viswanathan

Ariadne’s Dream

Ariadne’s Dream

Tess Fragoulis, whose new novel Ariadne's Dream is set in modern day Greece but includes the occasional cameo ...

By Joel Yanofsky

Sister Crazy

Sister Crazy

"All happy families are alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy. In her wonderfully ...

By Andrew Steinmetz

Ice Lake

Ice Lake

The story is already approaching popular legend status. Indeed, it won’t be surprising if future writers ...

By Ian McGillis

The Madame Paul Affair

The Madame Paul Affair

The Madame Paul Affair marks a turning point in the career of internationally acclaimed Montreal comic artist ...

By Andy Brown

This is Our Writing

Saul Bellow once said that writers seldom wish each other well. He was putting it mildly. Of Jack Kerouac's beat ...

By Joel Yanofsky

Wardlife

"I grew up in a very close family," said Andrew Steinmetz, 35. "It was an environment where I felt emotionally ...

By Carmine Starnino

Hugh Hood: A Personal Memoir

I first met Hugh Hood when he bounced into the English Department offices at the University of Montreal in 1961. ...

By Doug Rollins