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Criticism

In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism, edited by Robert Zacharias

August 19, 2025 by Alison Manley

This is a really interesting anthology, and dare I say key?

Categories Criticism, Non-Fiction Tags Literary Criticism, Mennonite, Mennonite Literature

Bait & Switch by Jim Johnstone

December 17, 2024 by Pearl Pirie

Do you ever wish poets would include essays to situate their poems? Some frank prose that ponders what their own poetry comes out of or means to do? We can’t follow every crumb trailer life, and not every aesthetic reaches universally. Consequently this book of essays, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and views on …

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Categories Criticism, Essays, Non-Fiction Tags criticism, Essays, nonfiction, Poetry
A yellow cove with "Girls" in green and red pixelated letters. The rest of the title is in black lettering near the bottom of the page.

Girls, Interrupted by Lisa Whittington-Hill

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 by Naomi MacKinnon

Until I read these essays, I hadn’t taken note of the ways that men and women are treated and portrayed differently in the media.

Categories Criticism, Essays, Non-Fiction, Social Studies Tags criticism, Essays, feminism, nonfiction, pop culture
Cover of Reservations by Steve Burgess

Reservations by Steve Burgess

May 17, 2024 by Lisa Timpf

Burgess discusses tourist attractions that have succeeded and failed. His description of his experiences at a temple in Nara, Japan had me laughing . . .

Categories Criticism, Humour, Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Travel Tags Essays, nonfiction, tourism environmental impacts, tourism social aspects, Travel
Cover of Work to be Done by Bruce Whiteman

Work to be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews by Bruce Whiteman

May 16, 2024May 15, 2024 by John Oughton

Bruce Whiteman is a man of letters. 

Categories Criticism, Cultural, Culture, Essay, Essays, Non-Fiction Tags cultural criticism, Essays, Literary Criticism, nonficiton, on writing
A portrait of Camille in a black turtleneck, her eyes are directed to the far left of the image.

The Camille Intson Interview Part the Second

April 26, 2024April 16, 2024 by Kevin Andrew Heslop

Camille Intson (alias, Camie) (b. 1997) is a Hamilton-born and Tkaronto-based multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice spans writing, performance, music, new media, and emerging technology.

Categories Criticism, Featured Posts, Film, Interviews, LGBTQIA2S+, Music, Play Tags Academia, Anti-Capitalism, Humanities, music, Oppenheimer, Philosophy, queer, Taylor Swift, Theory

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