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Current Issue
247 Canadian Literature
(2021)

Featured Poem

Gift
By Lauren Nerfa
If I could nourish an orb of sun in my hands, not only my words, the rays that strike the golden curls of a cherub…

Featured Book Review

Semblable clef de voûte
  • Autoportrait de Paris avec chat by Dany Laferrière
  • Sensorielles: Autour de Paul Chanel Malenfant by Vincent Lambert and Jacques Paquin
Reviewed by Nathalie Warren
Tel que l’annonce le titre, ces livres partagent une clef de voûte, soit celle de l’enfance, laquelle est reconnue par Laferrière et Malenfant comme le fondement de leur affectivité et de leur sensibilité, s’accordant à admettre, tel Barthes qu’ « [a]u fond, il n’est pays que de l’enfance ». Mais,…

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Sensing Different Worlds: Author Spotlight – Keah Hansen
Keah Hansen is a doctoral candidate in the Communication and Culture program at York University. She previously completed her Master’s of ...

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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

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

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Cohen’s Mythology by Jessica Fontaine

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Aug15
From Essex County to Outer Space by Dominick M. Grace

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Aug12
Healing, Truth Telling, and World Making by Alicia Fahey

  • A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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Aug10
Working, Drawing in the Oil Sands by Rachel Jekanowski

  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton


Aug8
The Social Life of Comics by Austin Kemp

  • The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll


Aug5
Medium as Message in Comics about Place by Jennifer Vanderburgh

  • Nova Graphica: A Graphic Anthology of Nova Scotia History by Laura Keninš


Aug3
Whose Canada Is This? by Sylvie Vranckx

  • Fuse: A Memoir by Hollay Ghadery
  • On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi


Aug1
Retracer le réel by Jerome Melancon

  • L’Archive du réel : essais sur Claude Simon by Claude Simon and Ralph Sarkonak


Jul31
Language, Land, and Body: An Indissoluble Nexus by John Charles Ryan

  • Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza and Ayelet Tsabari
  • Dadibaajim: Returning Home through Narrative by Helen Olsen Agger


Jul28
Recessive Potentials by MLA Chernoff

  • Pandemic Poems by Philip Resnick
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