An elderly relative of a friend committed suicide last year. The family put out that it was an accident. The silence at the heart of his life—the depression he never spoke of—proved too massive to shatter.
Nobody could say that Rudy Wiebe does not understand silence. His childhood in a tiny, isolated Mennonite community in Saskatchewan has shaped his perspective and his…
Anna Wilson
Anna Wilson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, shortly to defend her thesis on the longing for the past in medieval literature.