Criticism & Essays

The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts On Awful Things

“You must make a friend of horror,” said Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, and Charles Demers has taken his advice. In his new book, the comedian and sometime CBC Radio star cozies up to subjects ... Read More »

December 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems

By Sylvia McAdam

Books by indigenous writers serve a special function in Canada. Not only do they preserve stories from within their originating communities, they help to disseminate ideas and opinions to the larger Canadian populace, thereby aiding ... Read More »

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

★ Me Artsy

By Drew Hayden Taylor; ed.

June 3, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Native Peoples

Burqa of Skin

By Nelly Arcan; Melissa Bull (trans.)

Writers cannot control how their work is read, and this becomes infinitely more complicated after writers take their own lives. Especially pretty, young iconoclasts who write about sex work. Quebec author Nelly Arcan, whose debut ... Read More »

February 19, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

By Mark Abley

In 2010, the top prize for Ottawa-area poets was changed from the Lampman-Scott Award back to its original name, the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. (The award had joined with the Duncan Campbell Scott Foundation ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution

By Peter Swirski

There is general agreement that the Internet is changing the way we think of literacy. It is also agreed that such change is inevitable. But the nature of the transformation we are now undergoing, and ... Read More »

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?

By Paul Socken, ed.

September 27, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ This Is Running for Your Life

By Michelle Orange

The Internet has permitted a rise in the proliferation of, and attention to, the personal essay. In a variety of venues, we are treated to long-form confessional tracts in which authors explore the intimate details ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Lazy Bastardism: Essays and Reviews on Contemporary Poetry

By Carmine Starnino

Lazy Bastardism is an anthology of essays on poetry that date from 2004 to early 2012. The writing is consistently strong in every respect: well-crafted prose glimmering with insight, brimming with rhetoric. Lazy Bastardism is ... Read More »

February 21, 2013 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories

By Keith Oatley

A recipient’s first response to any work of art, suggests Ray Robertson, is probably somatic. For Robertson, we react to a book or a painting or a piece of music first on an emotional level, ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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