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Current Issue
250 Canadian Literature
(2022)

Featured Poem

Lotte Reiniger’s Magic Shadows*
By John Reibetanz
You couldn’t call them scissors in her hands   if the clashed swords of scissors slash and shear   her blades whispered through a void of thick…

Featured Book Review

Ending Ad Infinitum: Looking For An End After the End After the End
  • The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse, and Other Topics of Mild Concern by Scott Feschuk
  • Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel by Teresa Heffernan
Reviewed by Niall McArdle
As I write this, the number one film at the box office is a post-apocalyptic adventure story that imagines a ravaged future populated by bandits and marauders in tricked-out vehicles warring over gasoline, and one of the most popular television shows features hordes of flesh-eating ’zombies’ walking the earth following…

Spotlight


Issue 248: Author Spotlight – Judith Weisz Woodsworth
Judith Weisz Woodsworth is a translator and former university professor of translation studies at Concordia University. She is the recipient ...

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New Issue: 250 — General
February 9, 2023
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

Latest Books Reviewed

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Mar24
Not What You See but What You Know Is There by Colin Hill

  • Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear by Marta Dvořák

Mar22
Three Failures by Kelly Baron

  • Choosing Eleonore by Andrée A. Gratton
  • The Beautiful Place by Lee Gowan
  • The Music Game by Stéfanie Clermont

Mar17
Garden Metaphors by Susie DeCoste

  • Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems by Sue Sinclair
  • Land of the Rock: Talamh on Carraig by Heather Nolan
  • You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations by Shane Neilson

Feb20
Post-Dated by Shane Neilson

  • A History of Canadian Fiction by David Staines

Feb17
A Small Review by Eric Schmaltz

  • the book of smaller by rob mclennan

Feb15
Tides of Memory and Change by Jane Willsie

  • Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo
  • Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell
  • Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik

Feb13
Memories of the Prairie Imaginary by Paisley Conrad

  • Big Sky Falling by Kelsey Andrews
  • A Natural History of Unnatural Things by Zachari Logan
  • Earth-cool, and Dirty by Jacob Lee Bachinger

Feb10
Ecstatic and in Flux by Tim Conley

  • Ink Earl by Susan Holbrook
  • Niagara & Government by Phil Hall
  • Phantompains by Therese Estacion

Feb6
Laden with Crystal by André Babyn

  • Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir
  • The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba
  • Autowar by Assiyah Jamilla Touré

Feb3
Lost and Found by Scott Inniss

  • Miskwagoode by Marie Annharte Baker
  • Whitemud Walking by Matthew James Weigel