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Please stand and remove your cynicism

John Allemang

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Barbara Yaffe

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Naoko Asano
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Shelley Boyd

Shelley Boyd teaches Canadian literature in the English department of Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia. She is the author of Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013).

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Prisoners of Home

Margaret Atwood’s imagined society is grounded in the current abuses of capitalism. December 2015
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Carol Shields once stated “that language that carries weight in our culture is very often fuelled by a search for home, our rather piteous human groping toward that metaphorical place where we can be most truly ourselves.” Margaret Atwood taps into this fundamental desire for belonging and refuge in her latest novel, The Heart Goes Last…