Like a Mother
I imagined, with each feeding, that I might become less of a mother and more of my old self
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Where Is the Canadian Fiction about Afghanistan?
Canadians are far from squeamish in our literary tastes, but novels about the country where we were once at war are rare
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Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?
The questions posed in Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist feel personal and existential
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Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death
Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for
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The Griffin Poetry Prize Shakeup: New Rules, New Controversy
Scott Griffin wants to create the most lucrative poetry prize in the world. Not everyone is happy
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Why This Poet Declared War on Her Own Book
When M. NourbeSe Philip’s work on a slave ship massacre was translated without her consent, she didn’t recognize it anymore. Who ultimately owns the stories we tell?
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Ann-Marie MacDonald on Exile, Imagination, and Her New Gothic Ghost Story
The writer insists that her books have happy endings—“insofar as there is someone left to tell the tale”
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100 Years of Mavis Gallant
Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure
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