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Photo: Contributing editors Annabelle Moreau and Marie-Andrée Lamontagne (left), with directrices littéraires Annie Heminway and Ève Pariseau (right), April 2012.
Kenneth Radu
15 March 2022
Kenneth Radu's visit to Dorothy and William Wordsworth's cottage informs and enlightens his reading (and rereading) of Kathleen Winter's exquisite Undersong.
Philip Lanthier
21 February 2022
Matrix Magazine has a long and varied history as one of Quebec's more prominent English-language literary magazines. Philip Lanthier tells its origin story.
Jack Hannan
21 October 2021
The skin rejoices. An excerpt from Jack Hannan's second novel, I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through.
Sophie Voillot and Leila Marshy
16 September 2021
The Philistine translator Sophie Voillot had a daring idea about how the novel needed to be translated. She and author Leila Marshy sat down to discuss their approach.
Endre Farkas
20 June 2021
Habs fever hit Endre Farkas as a small boy in Communist Hungary with the surprise arrival of a red wool sweater with a CH in the middle.
Norman Ravvin
18 June 2021
Jack Kerouac wrote several unpublished works in French. Norman Ravvin explores the seminal author's Quebec roots.
Kenneth Radu
21 April 2021
Kenneth Radu dives into the layers of memory and displacement that is the story of Alina Dumitrescu's childhood in Communist Romania.
Lukas Rowland
18 January 2021
Watching an insurrection from afar is not all it's cracked up to be. Lukas Rowland contemplates the chaos in Washington and if he'll ever be able to go back home again.
Lisanne Gamelin
9 December 2020
What's the take away here? Lisanne Gamelin tackles the latest language kerfuffle in Quebec.
Dave Cavanagh
19 October 2020
Dave Cavanagh, a student journalist in 1970, looks back on the 50th anniversary of the October Crisis.
Carolyn Marie Souaid
8 October 2020
Would Carolyn Marie Souaid's marriage survive the 1995 Quebec referendum? A lot was on the line 25 years ago.
Norman Ravvin
24 August 2020
Funerals in Covid times take on a special character. Norman Ravvin writes about what a Jewish funeral is like now, a theme he considers on Polish ground in his recent novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything.
Carolyn Marie Souaid
12 August 2020
Carolyn Marie Souaid remembers a country of promise and hope, but also a land of despair and ruins.
Marianne Ackerman
2 June 2020
The backstage story of Marianne Ackerman’s hit comedy Triplex Nervosa, from kitchen table to opening night and beyond.
Eric Deguire
31 May 2020
Eric Deguire explores how a television program can be a perfect match for these sad and strange times.
Kenneth Radu
20 May 2020
Phillip Ernest has written two extraordinary and unique novels that have few comparisons in literature. Kenneth Radu explores the both real and imagined horrors found in The Vetala and The Far Himalaya.
Fanie Demeule
27 April 2020
Fanie Demeule, author of Lightness, addresses a letter to French author Geneviève Brisac, who also wrote a novel (Petite, 1994) based on her teenage years with an eating disorder.
Linda Leith
6 April 2020
When it comes to plagues and pestilence, the writers mentioned most often nowadays are Boccaccio, Defoe, Camus, and Garcia Marquez. But it’s Waiting for Godot and a 1986 story by Susan Sontag that come to Linda Leith’s mind.
Kenneth Radu
3 March 2020
Kenneth Radu remembers New York while reading Ariela Freedman's Brooklyn-set A Joy To Be Hidden.
Kenneth Radu
21 December 2018
Kenneth Radu finds "a poignant and unexpectedly witty narrative about a woman trying to free herself from dark horror."
Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa
4 October 2018
In Leigh Kinch-Pedrosa's review, D. Nandi Odhiambo's new novel is "a swirling, dizzying, drama full of complex characters and high stakes."
