CanLit

Recalling "The Conversation"

By Frances Boyle, in memory of Gene Hackman

Feb 27 •

Discordia Review

The Vietnamese-Canadian writer whose family feasted while Vietnam starved

Kim Thúy is the scion of a colonial collaborator family and is an imperialist apologist

Feb 21 •

Your Poetry Sucks: The Heel Manifesto

Or, In Praise of Aesthetic Antagonism

Feb 9 •

How to Run a Poetry Reading (the Way I Say it Should Be Done)

Start by hurling yourself into a giant industrial fan

Jan 5 •

When Robert Allen (sex pest) published the worst formatted book of all time

It's just that bad!

Oct 12, 2024 •

No Montréal for Old Hipsters

The dream of a city where you can live as a crustpunk in luxury is dead.

Feb 10, 2023 •

Is M. NourbeSe Philip actually being... an a*shole?

Philip has been trying to get an Italian translation of one of her books destroyed. Is she in the right?

Nov 10, 2022 •

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