Missing pieces: Alexandra Shimo on preserving Canada’s dark history
At my book launch in August, a 70-year-old woman named Margaret slowly walked to the front of the room, and looked out at the audience. She began speaking in a deliberate voice, even though there were...
View ArticleQ&A: playwright Ravi Jain on his Panamania play, Gimme Shelter
The Panamania festival features 40 performances and exhibitions across Toronto to complement the games, most of which were commissioned specifically for the event. Award-winning director and...
View ArticleQ&A: Joseph Boyden on Canada’s three solitudes
Five years before Justice Murray Sinclair urged the nation to “integrate indigenous knowledge” into cultural institutions as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, the Art...
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(Photo: Michael Banasiak) My first experience of the semantic headaches self-deception creates when working in a literary genre (creative non-fiction) that aims to capture the nuance and subtlety of...
View ArticleProfile: Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act
Amid the political anxieties of our time, Monia Mazigh’s latest novel, Hope Has Two Daughters, presents a historical milieu where… Read More »
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