How to Break Every Rule of Contemporary Writing and Succeed
Jean Marc Ah-Sen’s new book cracks open the tired tradition of the postmodern novel
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The Return of Political Fiction
How a new generation of Canadian writers is turning politics into art
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Randy Boyagoda’s New Novel Is Both Deeply Catholic and Deeply Funny
In his third book, the author skewers the multicultural anxieties of today’s university culture
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The Search for the Great Canadian Novel
Our national life is exciting, dramatic, and unpredictable. Why don’t more Canadian novelists write about it?
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Can Fiction Truly Capture the Mind of a Tyrant?
Dimitri Nasrallah’s new novel tells a timely story about the fall of a strongman dynasty
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Does Writing About Boredom Have to Be Boring?
In his new novel, Montreal author Guillaume Morissette takes the life out of millennial fiction
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Will a Posthumous Story Collection Help Canada Forgive Norman Levine?
After his unsparing portrait of the country in his 1950s travelogue, he was shunned by the literary elite
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Heather O’Neill at the Height of Her Literary Powers
Does The Lonely Hearts Hotel mark the beginning of her second act?
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The Wikipedia Novel
Has our hyperlinkable era given birth to a new kind of writing?
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