Place and Belonging: André Alexis's Pastoral, by Pamela Davison

Review of André Alexis's novel Pastoral (Coach House Press)

We are all Torontonians: Philistines and the Battle for Public Libraries

The Toronto battle has not yet made its mark nationally, but it should. If Toronto library users and supporters lose this fight, you can depend on it that other municipalities will be encouraged to follow suit. I am a Montrealer, not a Torontonian, but I know this is my battle, too. And I think it’s a battle we should all be fighting.

When it comes to the future of public libraries, we are all Torontonians.

Going Your Own Way, by Linda Leith

Asked to present the keynote talk yesterday at the QUESCREN conference Connect and Disconnect: Anglophones, the English Language, and Montreal's Creative Economy, I took the opportunity to consider what has changed and what has remained the same in Montreal's anglophone literary milieu in the six years since the publication of my essay Writing in the Time of Nationalism (Signature Editions, 2010). What follows is a short excerpt from that talk.

Mavis Gallant: The Writer as Rapscallion III, by Linda Leith

III. Delinquency and Writing

The final in a series of three excerpts from a talk presented to the Atwater Library in Montreal, March 6, 2014.

Mavis Gallant