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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Running in the family: Jordan Abel’s multimedia, polyvalent memoir addresses issues of identity and cultural heritage in the face of intergenerational trauma

June 4, 2021June 14, 2022

Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Horror Show

Christopher Sharrett on neoconservatism in the 1980s and ’90s horror film

October 16, 2020June 14, 2022

Upending the radical vision of much 1960s and ’70s American horror cinema, the following decades saw a reactionary retrenchment, argues the academic and critic.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Horror Show

Critic Darryl Jones on the history and appeal of a disreputable genre

October 11, 2020June 14, 2022

The Irish critic writes that horror, like all avant-garde art, operates at the extremes and tests its recipients’ tolerance levels.

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FilmNon-fictionThe Horror Show

Carol J. Clover and gender subversion in the modern horror film

October 6, 2020June 14, 2022

Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.

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International LiteratureNon-fictionThe Colophon

On regarding the lives of others: Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag

October 11, 2019June 14, 2022

Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag presents its subject as a mass of contradictions.

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CanLitNon-fictionThe Colophon

Finding the words: Sister Language by Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie

October 5, 2019June 14, 2022

Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie have created a unique dual text that examines the linguistic manifestations of schizophrenia.

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