Reviews

The Politics of the Pantry

The Politics of the Pantry

Chilly mornings with high blue skies, golden afternoons with leaves tumbling into the wind – autumn has come to Southern Quebec, and, with it, an awakening need to prepare for the ice and snow to come.

By Andrea Belcham

October 1970

October 1970

ctober 1970. Montreal. The kidnapping of James Cross, the murder of Pierre Laporte, the nation watching ...

By Rob Sherren

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus

auricio Segura’s third novel, Eucalyptus, is a briskly paced narrative portrait of a Chilean-Canadian ...

By Jacob Siefring

Kuessipan

Kuessipan

uessipan, we are told on the dedication page, means “your move” or “your turn” in the Innu language. Not ...

By Elise Moser

The Chaplain

The Chaplain

aul Almond is a lifelong storyteller. He began his career in the 1950s directing and producing television for the ...

By Deanna Radford

Time May Change Me

Time May Change Me

 Bracegirdle, a.k.a. Paul Blackwell, is a high priest of the creeps. His talents for scaring the pants off ...

By B. A. Markus

Desire Lines

Desire Lines

here is an inherent risk involved in putting together a collection of short stories. Include stories that are too ...

By Lesley Trites

Kitaro

Kitaro

Shigeru Mizuki is a living icon in Japan, to the point where an entire street in his birthplace, Sakaiminato, is given over to bronze figures representing characters from his work, and the nearest airport has been renamed in his honour.

By Ian McGillis

The Conceptual Muse

he muse in our time has taken a conceptual turn. Etymologically, a poet is a “maker,” and many writers are ...

By Bert Almon

The Edge of the Precipice

The Edge of the Precipice

n his opening paragraph, Mark Kingwell acknowledges the problem inherent in his contribution to The Edge of ...

By Joel Yanofsky

Conversations with a Dead Man

Conversations with a Dead Man

indsight is 20/20. Or is it, really? Do we ever truly get a clear picture, or are all views inherently variable, ...

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Canada’s Forgotten Slaves

uring much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the phenomenon of slavery in New France was virtually ...

By Jean Coléno