31 Days of Stories, Day 3: “A Degree of Suffering Is Required” by Christine Estima
The speaker in the story is Azurée Ghiz, the descendent of Arab immigrants in Toronto.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 2: “The Real Thing” by Henry James
The story is on one level a comedy of manners; on another, it is a careful and cutting critique of capitalism.
31 Days of Stories 2025, Day 1: “The Easter Lilies” by Jane Gardam
The bare bones of Gardam's story appear minor and parochial; this belies the depth and complexity the author infuses into her tale.
“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.
All the world a stage: The roles we play in our daily lives are examined in Katie Kitamura’s enigmatic Audition
In Audition we are presented with two essentially incompatible versions of the same woman
“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.
“Anyhow, he gives large parties”: On the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In Gatsby, we find the apotheosis of Fitzgerald's novelistic voice.
And then there were none: Griffin Poetry Prize unveils a five-book shortlist devoid of Canadians
If deep-pocketed institutions and organizations – and prizes – in this country aren't doing enough to support and elevate Canadian poetry, then it's up to the rest of us.
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.