Do Other Canadian Publishers Work in Two Languages? by Linda Leith

This is Part II of a three-part text, The Decision to Publish in French. Part I is here; Part III is here.

Space for a Pen, part III, by Kenneth Radu

John Ruskin attached a tower to his bedroom on his mountainside estate, Brantwood, on the shores of Coniston Water in Cumbria. Unlike Sackville-West’s, his tower room windowed on all sides, almost a capsule, offered a corner in which to escape from recurring nightmares or to watch the stars.

From Margaret O'Brien: Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter

Madeleine Thien has, bravely I think, chosen to write about a particular evil reality. Through Janie she unveils a dreadful truth.

Riding da Riddim: The Culcha Dancehall Clash, II, by Maurie Alioff

Miley Cyrus’s eyebrow-raising “twerking” is a bland white-bread facsimile of what happens all over Jamaica, every night, when the selectors program hot songs the deejays rap, and partiers dance until dawn.

Rising dancehall queen Tifa at the Montreal Reggae Fest