Mavis Gallant’s “Questions and Answers” (1965)

2020-01-07T11:19:34-05:00

Flickering and Imprecise: the first words I jotted down, while reading this Mavis Gallant story. It struck me that perhaps one of the reasons that her stories have endured is that her style is uncluttered and direct: there aren’t a lot of adjectives or adverbs, so when something –

Mavis Gallant’s “Questions and Answers” (1965)2020-01-07T11:19:34-05:00

New Homes, Other Homes: Emigration and Immigration

2018-05-30T16:18:40-04:00

There are many amazing stories about moving from somewhere to elsewhere, about the process of elsewhere becoming somewhere. Take Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy - literally, amazing. It's right there on the cover. It's a real favourite of mine, in which seventeen-year-old Samuel reads comic books in Trinidad to

New Homes, Other Homes: Emigration and Immigration2018-05-30T16:18:40-04:00
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