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

Featured Poem

Tumbling in spring
By Michael Lithgow
As the sun sinks below the false horizon of bungalows behind my house, the sound of light passing through dust on my windows seems to…

Featured Book Review

Parallel Lives
  • Pierre-Esprit Radisson: The Collected Writings, Volume 2: The Port Nelson Relations, Miscellaneous Writings, and Related Documents by Germaine Warkentin
  • The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts by David Thompson and William E. Moreau
Reviewed by Andre Furlani
David Thompson advertised his prospective Travels in the Montreal Gazette on 9 October 1846 as the narrative of Twenty-eight consecutive Years, in the Northern parts of this Continent; of which twenty-two years were employed in the Exploration and Survey of Countries not then known, or the Survey and Examination of…

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Pandemics: Author Spotlight – JP Catungal & Ethel Tungohan
John Paul (JP) Catungal is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Interim Director ...

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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

Latest Books Reviewed

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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

Nov2
A Knack for Anachronism by Carl Watts

  • The Tantramar Re-Vision by Kevin Irie
  • Vlarf by Jason Camlot
  • Romantic by Mark Callanan

Oct31
Human Stories by Emma Morgan-Thorp

  • Music, Late and Soon by Robyn Sarah
  • Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote

Oct28
Day of Wrath, Earth in Ashes by Warren Heiti

  • Field Requiem by Sheri Benning

Oct17
Questioning Poetry by Scott Inniss

  • OЯACULE by Nicole Raziya Fong
  • Flying Red Horse by Dale Martin Smith

Oct14
Haida Manga and Beyond by Emma Morgan-Thorp

  • Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell

Oct12
The Freedom to Mother by Christina Turner

  • The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall