“Mondays are bait days”: The harsh landscape of Chris Bailey’s rigorously unsentimental second collection
In Bailey's case, his subject is virtually inexhaustible, because the setting is inexhaustible.
Continental drift: Rob Goodman’s Not Here, written before Trump 2.0, provides glimpses of Canada’s resilience
That democratic erosion, well underway when Goodman published his book in summer 2023, has only accelerated under a second Trump administration.
David Stones, Stratford, Ontario’s first poet laureate, has plans to bring poetry to the people
"The poet laureate role to me is to bring poetry to the people and the people to poetry."
Horrible landlords and abrasive seas: The sombre and fleetingly optimistic vision of Karen Solie’s Wellwater
If there is any obvious hope to be found in the sombre and desolate poems on offer in this collection, it is in the perseverance of nature in the face of violence and peril.
Gothic tropes and lush language characterize A Song for Wildcats, the debut story collection from Caitlin Galway
Galway's rich feel for language and her ability to inhabit a wide range of characters and milieus is impressive.
Pulling at the seams: Mark Bourrie’s Ripper examines the rise and popular appeal of Pierre Poilievre
Bourrie transcends a simple biography and creates a snapshot of our riven historical moment.
Keep the godwit flying: More on the Sutherland House/Fitz & Witz amalgamation
The exact nature of the agreement remains obscure.
“It has broken me completely”: Omar El Akkad talks about disillusionment, the West, and finding space to grieve with his new work of nonfiction
"There's the one book I write, and then there are the million different books that people read."
A chilly chamber quartet: Four Canadian writers craft uncanny tales in different registers
Each entry in the book contains, perhaps unsurprisingly, references to at least one dead writer.
New thoughts on the oldest profession: Lauren Kirshner examines recent film treatments of sex workers in her new study
Kirshner mounts a cogent and persuasive argument in favour of reevaluating the way society, and the popular culture that reflects it, considers sex work.