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Current Issue
249 Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics
(2022)

Featured Poem

Landscape
By Jake Kennedy
I have been asking myself whether natural forms—a tree, a cloud, a river, a stone, a flower—can be looked at and perceived as messages. —John…

Featured Book Review

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  • Villes et traductions: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelone, et Montréal by Sherry Simon and Pierrot Lambert
Reviewed by Claudia Bouliane
Avec Villes en traduction, Sherry Simon propose une étude comparatiste de quatre moments urbains privilégiés de la modernité, qu’elle saisit par le biais d’une conception inusitée de la traduction envisagée en tant qu’action performative, mais aussi comme sous-culture et, éventuellement, comme mode d’écriture. Si la mise sur le même plan de cités et…

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Issue 247 Author Spotlight – George Elliott Clarke
The inaugural E.J. Pratt Poet/Professor, of Canadian Literature, at the University of Toronto, George Elliott Clarke hails from Black ...

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In Memory of Y-Dang Troeung
November 27, 2022

New Issue: 249 – Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics
November 23, 2022

New Issue: 248, General
September 16, 2022

Past Editor Eva-Marie Kröller Order of Canada Appointee June 2022
July 8, 2022

New Issue: 247, General
May 13, 2022

Verse Forward 3: A Poetry Reading Series
April 7, 2022

A Forum on “Poetics, Energy, and Extraction”
March 18, 2022

New Issue: 246, Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War
February 15, 2022

Laura Moss to give McLean lecture
February 10, 2022

Canada Reads 2022 Long List
January 14, 2022

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Jan23
Degrees of Jerry by Dan Adleman

  • Untimely Passages: Dossiers from the Other Shore by Jerry Zaslove


Jan20
Refugee Anecdotes and Lifeworlds by Vinh Nguyen

  • Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia by Y-Dang Troeung


Jan16
Returns: As We Have Always Done by Tiffany Lethabo King

  • As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson


Dec14
Where Shall We Live Now? by Hilary Turner

  • Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction by Cheryl Cowdy
  • The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird: Essays on the Common and Extraordinary by Tim Bowling


Dec12
Dying, Knowing, Fleeing by Alice Hinchliffe

  • Du coup, j'ai fui la France by Anaïs Gachet
  • Only If We're Caught by Theressa Slind
  • What We Think We Know by Aaron Schneider


Dec9
The Space Between by Kelly Shepherd

  • Answer to Blue by Russell Thornton
  • Who We Thought We Were As We Fell by Michael Lithgow
  • the fool by Jessie Jones


Dec7
New Newfoundland Dramas by Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Hunger by Meghan Greeley
  • Crippled by Paul David Power


Nov9
A Sense of Place by Dani Spinosa

  • Harbour Grids by Zane Koss
  • Bittersweet by Natasha Ramoutar


Nov7
Redefining Love by Lillian Liao

  • Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel


Nov4
In Current News by Lillian Liao

  • Best Canadian Stories 2021 by Diane Schoemperlen


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