The two latest offerings from McGill-Queen’s University Press’s Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series are both formalist musings about love. Bruce Whiteman is a full-time author, rare book specialist, and book reviewer (including for Q&Q). His latest ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
The two latest offerings from McGill-Queen’s University Press’s Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series are both formalist musings about love. Bruce Whiteman is a full-time author, rare book specialist, and book reviewer (including for Q&Q). His latest ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Kurdish-born Jalal Barzanji prefers to keep his political beliefs separate from his poetry. During the darkness of Saddam Hussein’s despotic regime in Iraq, which included ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Kurds, there was a demand for ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
The title of Robyn Sarah’s My Shoes Are Killing Me speaks to the nostalgia that her poems explore: if “nostalgia” literally means “painful homecoming,” then the “shoes” – read as a metonymy for the past ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Multiculturalism is a myth Canadians like to console themselves with. Politically correct language and bromides about the cultural mosaic notwithstanding, the Great White North does not have a stellar history when it comes to its ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Heather O’Neill – whose first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, won CBC’s Canada Reads competition in 2007 and whose second, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize – ... Read More »
April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, returns with her fifth novel, a tale of privilege, ambition, romance, and self-discovery set in the Scottish Highlands during the final year of the Second World War. For ... Read More »
March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The de-mythologizing of the Wild West in popular culture began with the Italian spaghetti westerns of the 1960s. These movies eschewed the idealized and heroic Hollywood vision of the West and instead emphasized violence, moral ... Read More »
March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
One doesn’t expect a volume entitled Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll to double as a science textbook, but “Guerilla Scientist” Zoe Cormier’s debut attempts a unique twofer: it wants to have its MDMA-laced cake ... Read More »
March 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture
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