Acclaimed author and English professor Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel, Lords of Serendipity, is set between Sri Lanka and the United States, and follows two ambitious young women whose dreams of elite higher education expose a much larger world of parental sacrifice, global inequality, institutional gatekeeping, and the complicated moral economy surrounding modern universities. Both sharply …
Hi Niko! Thank you so much for your time. I must be a fangirl first and let you know I’ve been following your work for some time and I am thrilled to be talking to you today. There are so many exciting themes in “Dad Rock” that I want to ask you about! Though, I’m going to begin with a bit of a bummer question because lately I am so often thinking about grief and mental wellness amongst my peers. When you discuss Jason Molina’s Farewell Transmission in your essay We’re all Supposed to Try, you capture your own memories with the song and you also present bits of Molina’s story. But I was moved by how careful you were to discuss his life and work without overly romanticizing his struggles, while still acknowledging the reality that he lived with alcoholism and ultimately died quite young.
Calgary-based poet, publisher, and digital artist Kyle Flemmer has long been a vital member of his literary communities, both in Canada and abroad, and he has just released his second full-length book of poetry, Supergiants, with Wolsak & Wynn. Supergiantsis impressive for the way it represents Flemmer’s robust imagination and technical skill as a poet working at the intersection of language and visual media.
I had to admit to myself that I have this love-hate relationship with sports – quite a profound love-hate relationship to the point where I tell this story on myself that’s not in the book.
In The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse, basketball journalist Oren Weisfeld looks past the highlights and toward the hard, often uncomfortable work of building a national basketball ecosystem – one shaped by immigration, resistance from governing bodies, U.S. prep schools, grassroots rebels, and decades of tension.
So there was this moment for me where I thought: my God, everything in my life has changed, but the one thing that has held true is the presence of the Crown, and of colonialism.
From the beginning, even with them being conjoined, I didn’t want the conflict to come from discrimination or an overtly ableist world. That never felt like the story to me.
Metadata from a Changing Climate considers themes of nature, change, and connection.
Sean Howard’s new collection, Overlays (Gaspereau Press, 2025) collects “fresh poems from the deep wells of two related texts—John Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978) and Peter Sanger’s Sea Run (Gaspereau Press, 2023), a critical commentary on Thompson’s [work].”
Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?
Terese Mason Pierre is the editor of As The Earth Dreams (House of Anansi Press), a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Sumaiya Matin: I’m delighted to be in conversation with you about your latest poetry chapbook titled What If Maybe and Other Poems, edited by Puneet Dutt and published by Baseline Press. This collection of nine poems, some previously published in literary magazines such as The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, The Temz Review, Queen’s Quarterly, …
What makes a sports team more than just athletes? For the Montreal Canadiens, it’s a rich tapestry of cultural significance and national pride, deeply interwoven with Quebec’s history.
Striving to get ahead in a world of scams, Hamid is caught in the fervour surrounding a charismatic social-media imam with questionable intentions.
Here is part II of my interview with Ted Barris. This interview has been edited for length and for clarity.
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