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CanLitThe ColophonWriters and Writing

Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023

Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.

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CanLitPublishingThe Colophon

DIY veteran Jim Munroe experiments with AI art for a short-run print edition of his latest novel, We Are Raccoons

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023

"That kind of direct connection with readers and creators is probably the majority of why I make art in the first place."

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

In Lost in Canada, Lydia Perović reconsiders her adopted country’s status as a bastion of liberal democracy

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

Perović's ideal of Canadian nationalism based in universality and Enlightenment freedoms has always been chimerical.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Vancouver writer Jen Sookfong Lee’s new essay collection locates itself at the intersection of pop culture and identity

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Lee does not make value judgments about high or low culture: she is equally at home watching Wong-Kar Wai films without subtitles and watching twenty seasons' worth of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

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CanLitNovelsThe Horror Show

The debut novel by Jessica Johns reclaims Indigenous horror tropes in a story about pervasive familial grief

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

What is apparent throughout Bad Cree is Johns's facility for dealing with the rocky and tumultuous terrain of familial memory.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Music, magic, madness, and murder combine in Matt Cahill’s sophomore novel, Radioland

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

"I wanted to approach magic as a sort of organic, biological thing."

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Brief EncountersCanLit

With his new short story collection, Stuart Ross continues in the spirit of underground publishing

December 8, 2022December 14, 2022

Traces of writers as diverse as Daniil Kharms and Jorge Luis Borges are detectable in the collection.

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CanLitNovelsThe ColophonThe Horror Show

Greek mythology, feminism, and body horror collide in Martine Desjardins’s intriguing Gothic fantasia

November 29, 2022November 30, 2022

By melding elements of Greek mythology, nature, and body horror, Desjardins has created something unique and enticing.

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CanLitInternational LiteratureThe Colophon

A quartet of novellas demonstrates the quirky versatility of the form

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Metafiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy are among the genres represented in these brief and intriguing works.

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CanLitThe Colophon

In her debut novel, Manaka Raman-Wilms tackles climate change and far-right radicalization

November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

Paced like a thriller and cast as a chase novel, The Rooftop Garden is a compulsive yet somewhat vexatious read.

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