Heather Birrell’s debut novel finds a high school English teacher going into labour during a lockdown
Birrell employs a variation on Faulkner's structure in As I Lay Dying.
Dana A. Williams’s new book about Toni Morrison’s time at Random House shines a light – albeit a limited one – on an underexplored aspect of the writer’s career
The picture that emerges of Morrison as editor is of someone simultaneously dedicated to her authors and interested in helping them find wide audiences while also firm – not to say obstinate – in her opinion of her own editorial talent.
Elbows Up! anthology from M&S aims to update an earlier volume of patriotic and nationalistic essays
Certainly Canadian cultural nationalism does not look the same today as it did in 1968.
Poems of love and protest combine in Claude McKay’s piercingly relevant 2022 collection Harlem Shadows
These poems testify to the range of McKay's emotive field.
McClelland & Stewart launches Kanata Classics as an act of reconciliation to reclaim and expand the literary classics space
"It became really clear that Canadian publishers generally are not putting enough effort into the classics space."
“We is all we have”: Science, nature, and politics intertwine in Derek Webster’s National Animal
The poems in National Animal do not cleave to unidirectional pieties about nature or the resilience of humankind.
Pedagogy as practice: A new anthology aims to define best practices for teaching creative writing in universities
Numerous chapters address interdisciplinary practice and the value of working not just across genres but across academic fields of interest.
Content warning: Some thoughts on the Alberta government’s new initiative to police content in provincial schools
The term "explicit sexual content" is often code for gay, lesbian, or trans content.
“The workforce is older and not moving”: The ACP’s Dani MacDonald discusses the implications in the group’s latest salary survey
"There's definitely under-representation of BIPOC individuals in senior roles," MacDonald says.
Future (un)certain: An unconventional POV undercuts the emotional force in Jean-Phillippe Baril Guérard’s You Crushed It
Guérard's novel gives the impression that the author is impatient with traditional narrative forms.