20 May 2014
Chantal Ringuet, who has written a series of Letters from Israel on this website, has just published Under the Skin of War (BuschekBooks, Ottawa), a collection of poetry inspired by the work of British photographer Don McCullin. The launch takes place this evening at Librairie Le port de tête, 6 - 8 p.m.
6 May 2014
Novelist Jennifer Quist meets the Mormon book scene in Salt Lake City.
30 April 2014
Fatima Soualhia Manet brings Marguerite Duras to life on stage.
[Photo: Yan Duffas]
24 April 2014
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
24 April 2014
Reggae music linked up to the anti-colonial, back-to Africa, enlightenment-seeking Rastafari movement that originated in the 1930’s. It became the only widely popular recent music to transmit religious and political beliefs, and many other outgoing messages. Jah-struck roots reggae (or “culture,” pronounced “culcha”) works like gospel music.
9 April 2014
Joy Sorman
[Photo: C. Hélie. All rights reserved.]
Part I of this translation can be found on this site here.
The original French text of part II can be found here on Salon .ll.
5 April 2014
Like a Beast tells the story of a young man, Pim, who loves animals. He loves them so much that he learns to butcher them. Perfectly. The author’s meticulous research helps carry the reader deep into the realm of its subject.
Translated by Ellen Sowchek
[Photo: C. Hélie. All rights reserved.]
6 March 2014
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
6 March 2014
II. Escape
The second in a series of three excerpts from a talk presented at the Atwater Library in Montreal, March 6, 2014.
Mavis Gallant, née Mavis Young
[Photo: Glay Sperling]
6 March 2014
6 March 2014
To begin at the end, here is a coda to the talk I gave today at the Atwater Library in Montreal on Mavis Gallant.
Mavis Gallant at The Standard, Montreal
29 January 2014
Mark Abley's Conversations with a Dead Man is an unorthodox mash-up of sources, but it is this generic variety which allows the text to both entertain and succeed.
13 December 2013
Salon .ll. congratulates Dany Laferrière, the first Canadian to join the Immortals
[Photo: Linda Leith]
25 November 2013
Part Two: Fameck, May 2003: Waiting for the mailman, and Sylvia
Daewoo, an evocative historical novel by François Bon, gives voice to the (mostly women) workers who were the ultimate victims of this corporate crime.
15 November 2013
Based on documentary research and personal interviews with some of the workers, François Bon has created a work that captures the very human and often tragic side of this drama. As he himself describes it, "If these female workers no longer have a place anywhere, let this novel be their memoir."
22 October 2013
Pamela Davison writes about Vigilante Season, the second in Peter Kirby's gripping Luc Vanier series of crime novels, launching today at Montreal's Paragraphe Books.
20 September 2013
13 September 2013
Author Connie Guzzo-McParland
Connie Guzzo-McParland is the author of The Girls of Piazza d'Amore, a first novel published by Linda Leith Publishing of September 14th, 2013. Literary critic Linda Morra conducted this interview with her on the eve of publication.
3 August 2013
Jennifer Quist is an Alberta writer whose first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death, is published today by Linda Leith Publishing. This interview took place on the eve of publication.
Jennifer Quist
14 July 2013
This is what makes a culture, this kind of occasion, this play, this green sward, this shared delight, the company of all these friends and strangers. This is Shakespeare in the Park, thanks to Repercussion Theatre.
Julie Tamiko Manning as Titania and Alain Goulem as Bottom [Photo: Repercussion Theatre]
23 June 2013
The Tate resurrected my joy. Perhaps a replica or reconstruction may have the tendency to kill the imagination or spirit. Perhaps there is a dark aspect to glorifications and resurrections from cultural graves.
Courtyard of the Tate Modern, London
![McCord Museum](http://<a href="http//www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/VIEW-23291/" title="More information about this image"><img src="http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/ObjView/v23291.jpg" width="385" height="305" alt="Photograph | Sherbrooke St. from roof of Ritz Carlton, Montreal, QC, 1925 | VIEW-23291" /></a>){kind=link}