CanLit - Quillette

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

2 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

We Can Revisit (And Even Replace) the Classic Books We Teach Children—Without Cancelling Them

Allan Stratton

18 Mar 2021 · 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

9 Mar 2021 · 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

6 Dec 2020 · 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

6 Nov 2020 · 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

17 Jul 2020 · 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

4 Dec 2018 · 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

17 Oct 2018 · 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

14 Aug 2018 · 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

21 Jun 2018 · 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

15 Mar 2018 · 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

1 Feb 2018 · 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

10 Jan 2018 · 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

8 Dec 2017 · 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 Jan 2017 · 6 min read