The worlds of therapy and nature operate in tandem in Melanie Siebert’s long poem Signal Infinities
Siebert's empathetic approach to her material is admirable and she has the capacity for cutting observation.
Worrisome 20th century antecedents preoccupy Ken McGoogan in his new work of biographical history
The chimes between Europe of the 1930s and American in the 2010s and early 2020s are clear and persuasive.
A new volume of interviews provides an interesting – if proscribed – view of Canadian poets and poetry
Jones's preference for selecting elder statesmen and women generally omits a broad range of voices that have helped push Canadian poetry out of the confines of its colonial past.
The harsh realities of rural Newfoundland provide the backdrop for Susie Taylor’s debut story collection
The Newfoundland of Vigil is an unforgiving place, and Taylor treats it, along with her cast of characters, without an ounce of sentimentality.
Grief, memory, and formal playfulness combine in new poetry from Dallas Hunt and Catherine Owen
Owen is a lyric poet who delights in working within traditional forms.
Three new novels apply a postmodern lens to horror cinema and its practitioners
The subtextual question in each of these stories – Where, exactly, does the true horror reside? – is a provocative and pressing one.
Megha Majumdar departs Scotiabank Giller Prize jury amid spiralling protest
Giller will operate with a three-person jury for the first time since 2014.
The Giller foundation sticks with Scotiabank, while losing one juror and the number of writers pulling their books rises to nineteen
Dismantling systems of arts funding in a capitalist society is notoriously difficult.
A group of fifteen authors pull their books from consideration for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in protest of its main sponsor’s investment in an Israeli arms manufacturer
The signatories are calling for the Giller to lobby Scotiabank to fully divest from Elbit Systems and for the prize to sever ties with the Azrieli Foundation, Indigo, and Audible.
Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.