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Cruel Summer

An iconic town in the line of fire

Blurred Borders

The human stories behind immigration

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

John Degen

John Degen is a novelist and poet. His day job is executive director of The Writers’ Union of Canada. His novel, The Uninvited Guest (Nightwood Editions, 2006), was a finalist for the 2006 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.

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Cultural Nationalism 3.0

The head of The Writers’ Union of Canada continues the debate on CanLit in the schools (and in our lives) June 2013
Michael LaPointe’s essay on CanLit in the May issue of the Literary Review of Canada challenges Canadians to measure both our awareness of our national literature and our level of contentment with the very idea of a national literature. LaPointe continues an ongoing conversation that almost certainly does not happen in most of the rest of the English-speaking…