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A Life in Words

The essay is an accommodating form; it can take on almost any subject. Essays also, according to the author of this new collection, “braid and weave and assemble patterns.” They may contain [...]

Exactly what every Christmas story should be

Let us suppose that there once lived, in an invented town in Alberta’s real Peace River country, an invented family by the name of Garance, some of whose members were distinctly odd. Their [...]

A Refugee Story

Frank O’Connor, the great Irish author, described a writer as one who sets a mirror in the roadway and then goes about describing what he or she sees reflected there. Edmonton author Jasmina Odor [...]

Building on a Literary Identity

Certain historical events—particularly those where someone sins and someone is sinned against—draw novelists as magnets draw iron filings. In Canada, the misnamed Riel Rebellion of 1885, the [...]

edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie and Jason Purcell