Now that network television has all but disappeared from our everyday consciousness, it’s difficult to convey how central it once was to how we viewed…
The notion of what translation is has been widening in recent years, to such an extent that it is now almost impossible to say what…
None of the many novels Ford Madox Ford wrote before The Good Soldier, which appeared in 1915, are read today; few people even know he…
Unlike my other least favourite question – “What’s your novel about?” – this one, “Why write?”, is a question that writers ask themselves, usually plaintively.…
Why is Canada getting such a bashing in the literary press these days? At this year’s Kingston WritersFest, Adam Gopnik, a Canadian who lives…
We landed in Panama on February 10, twelve of us, for a birding trip that would take us into the Darién Gap, the only stretch…
Walking up from the Banff townsite to the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity one evening, I saw movement on the path ahead of me.…
A white mist hangs over the Campbell River in the mornings. The river flows swiftly and is so shallow it kicks a lot of moisture…
In February 1835, Phineas T. Barnum launched his career as a showman by purchasing a female slave, Joice Heth, from R.W. Lindsay, a Kentucky side-show…
I was raised almost mutely by a father who, I am sure, loved me, but with a kind of muscle love that could not be…