The Case for Reading Quebec’s Most Reclusive Author
Réjean Ducharme was brilliant, influential, and mostly invisible to English Canada
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What Makes Alias Grace so Good
As a TV writer, I learned strong protagonists drive action. But the latest adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s feminist classic subverts all of that
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How Claire Messud Learned to Talk Like a Teenage Girl
The author’s new novel gives readers a glimpse into the complicated lives of young women
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Body of Work
In her new novel, Barbara Gowdy draws inspiration from private agonies
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Leaving It All on the Page
Heather O’Neill on writing her high-school love into her work
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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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Harry Potter Lives On
What happens when famous literary characters outgrow their creators?
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The Brexit Fix-it
How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might help alleviate a global crisis
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The Ivory Twitter
How a Shakespeare professor accidentally revolutionized academic criticism
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Poetry Slam
Cowardly critics and bad art—a Canadian codependency
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