The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba
Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence.
Yvon Grenier
· 13 min read
CanLit
A collection of 16 posts
We Can Revisit (And Even Replace) the Classic Books We Teach Children—Without Cancelling Them
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
With Theatres Shuttered, I Tried to Stage a 'Zoom Play.' (It Didn't Work)
I once directed a classical musical—Anything Goes—at Canada’s Shaw Festival. But that’s the only play I’ve directed that was seen by a large audience.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again
How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?
Will Johnson
· 11 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’
Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools
Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
Robert MacBain
· 14 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
The Furore Over a Quebec Theatre Production Has Missed the Point
Quebec briefly played host this summer to a theatrical production described by one prominent artist as “reminiscent of blackface minstrel shows.”
Dan Delmar
· 7 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
The Dishonesty of #MeToo in Canada's Literary Scene
The effect of the #MeToo movement, especially in Canada, is creating the same subdued atmosphere among men.
Irene Ogrizek
· 9 min read
"Canada Has Gone Mad": Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou
Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.”
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Making a Stand for Cultural Universalism
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Students, Sex, Social Media and Why the Steven Galloway Affair Is so Murky
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read