Film Review Snow: On the Peculiar Politics of Whiteness in Carol Karin Cope Editorial note: This is a slightly modified and edited version of an essay that appeared in the author’s personal […]
Book Review Good as Gone: My Life with Irving Layton Anne Cimon In her recently published memoir Good as Gone, about her marriage with internationally renowned Canadian poet, the late Irving Layton, […]
Editorial The Heart has its Reasons Nilambri Ghai En route to Europe and Asia, I find graffiti everywhere on streets and train stations in Copenhagen. Many words on […]
Interview The CBC Reborn: Programming to Disrupt the Senses Mark A. Krupa Like so many artist-creators who felt somewhat suffocated under our country’s last political regime, for me it was […]
Art Les Cornets: Installations by Andréanne Bouchard Le projet des cornets s’est amorcé en 2013 alors que l’artiste avait fixé sur sa bicyclette un petit […]
Poetry Emperor’s New Clothes Jaspreet Singh He drove me in a TATA cab through the streets of Old and New Delhi. The air […]
Art Mile End Murals Jody Freeman Portrait of Nina Simone, heart blazing, on Jeanne Mance St., by Montréal street artist (and jazz singer) MissMe, who describes herself […]
Short Story Monday Morning Madera Municipal Court Roberto Perezdiaz Municipal Court Mondays were always a low roar or outright chaos. Or maybe it was the other way around […]
Poetry Ellipse & For daughters I can’t call mine Jody Freeman Ellipse I am the chaos of my father’s order I am the conscience of his delight I am the […]
Poetry On the streets of Paris: In Memory of Jean Rhys Catherine Watson I came looking for you on the streets of Montparnasse boulevard Arago, rue Saint-Jacques, rue Mouffetard, boulevard Raspail place […]
Essay The Dramaturgy of Political Violence Neilesh Bose Approximately one hundred and fifty years ago, a remarkable play featuring a Muslim character who hates himself and who embodies […]
Book Review In the flesh: a tale of deadly beauty Simon Van Vliet Nelly Arcand, Breakneck, Anvil Press, 2015, 223 pages. Translation by Jacob Homel Nelly Arcand was a shooting star […]
Poetry Five poems Louise Carson Canadian poetry The birds are quiet here. They do not shout or bang about the window openings. They are […]
Commentary The heart has its reasons Gaston Roberge In the context of the present aggressive globalization, this affirmation – the heart has its reasons – is fundamental. It […]
Book Review “What does it feel like to be people” Jordan Dessertine [Melissa Bull, rue, poems, Anvil Press, 2015, 104 pages] I was handed a copy of Melissa Bull’s debut book […]
Poetry Woman in the dream of the pink house & Rocking horse Ilona Martonfi Woman in the dream of the pink house I listen to you tell, Éloïse. Years before this […]
Prose Number of Lies Nilambri Ghai “She is a liar and a cheat. She is an elephant. She is my wife.” And it was the […]
Book Review In Praise of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and his book, In Defiance Sam Boskey This is an adaptation of the presentation I gave at the launch of the English-language edition of Gabriel […]
Book Review Some Remarkable Women Nilambri Ghai Resilience and Triumph: Immigrant Women Tell their Stories (Second Story Press) is a collection of writings by over 45 women […]
Book Review Canada in Africa Patrick Barnard Yves Engler’s latest book, Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, continues this author’s relentless work not […]
Book Review Two Sheets to the Freezing Wind: A Review of Karin Cope’s What We’re Doing to Stay Afloat Marie Thérèse Blanc Cope, Karin. What We’re Doing to Stay Afloat. Pottersfield Press, 2015. 96 pages Persephone in Canada […]
Music Bauls in Saguenay and Kolkata Kamalinee Imagine nomads in quilted alkhallas (long loose robes), strumming ektaras (single stringed drone guitars) in the Sufi-Baul[1] tradition […]
