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Current Issue
247 Canadian Literature
(2021)

Featured Poem

Powerpoint Presentation
By Lyle Neff
What speckled disaster I tossed down my gold throat last night, fluidly commending freaks to anomalous lives, though I don't know shit: a mean little…

Featured Book Review

La Digne Mère
  • La mauvaise mère by Marguerite Andersen
Reviewed by Ariane Gibeau
Les voix de mères, longtemps écartées de la tradition littéraire occidentale, sont désormais très présentes dans nos productions littéraires, culturelles et médiatiques. Jeunes et moins jeunes, les femmes n’hésitent plus à partager leur expérience de la maternité, leurs joies et leurs difficultés. À près de 90 ans, Marguerite Andersen, pionnière…

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Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War : Author Spotlight – Lindsay Diehl
Lindsay Diehl is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. Her ...

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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

Call for Papers on “Feminist Critique Here and Now”
December 22, 2021

Memories of Ronald Hatch
December 3, 2021

The Passing of Marie Claire Blais
December 2, 2021

The Passing of Lee Maracle & Phyllis Webb
November 12, 2021

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May19
A Most Disturbing Book by Corinne Bigot

  • St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy by Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein


May16
Our Permanent Revolution by Karl Jirgens

  • Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott


May12
Women’s Time by Kelly Baron

  • We, Jane by Aimee Wall
  • We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin
  • Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell


May9
Longing for Belonging by Gilles Dupuis

  • Ying Chen’s Fiction: An Aesthetics of Non-Belonging by Rosalind Silvester


May6
Skirting Gender in Early Drama by Kailin Wright

  • Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920 by Kym Bird


May3
Pack It in Your Bones by Alexa Manuel

  • Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson


May2
Suicide Is among Us (And So Is Theory) by Valerie Uher

  • Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide by Concetta Principe
  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier


Apr29
Innocence Lost and Found by Heather Macfarlane

  • A Cemetery for Bees by Alina Dumitrescu and Katia Grubisic
  • Songs for Angel by Marie-Claire Blais and Katia Grubisic


Apr27
“A Particular Wonky Elegance”: Two Approaches to Form by David Huebert

  • Archaic Torso of Gumby by Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson
  • Boy with a Problem by Chris Benjamin


Apr25
New Literary Landscapes by Heather Dorries

  • Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology by Adrian De Leon, Téa Mutonji and Natasha Ramoutar
  • Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere and Rebeka Tabobondung


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