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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

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

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Thomas Hodd

Thomas Hodd writes on education and book culture, and is co-founder of the Early Canadian Literature Society.

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A Compelling Voice

The academy finally catches up to David Adams Richards. June 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how often academics overlook this country’s major writers. Consider the facts: in the past 37 years, David Adams Richards has published more than a dozen novels, several works of non-fiction, a handful of plays and two collections of short stories. He has won the Giller Prize, two Gemini awards for screenwriting and a Governor General’s Award for fiction as well as one for…

The Canadian Supernatural

In fiction from Charles G. D. Roberts to Gabrielle Roy and Joseph Boyden, nature takes on spiritual power. June 2010