"I like telling stories of women who act on their passions." "I like these strong female characters." "When I talk with readers I feel an enormous appetite in women to explore both their strength and their emotional connectedness, which still tend not to be honoured in the dominant culture."* Any
"If you think you understand what you see on the surface, caution Atwood's fathomless parentheticals, keep looking." So says Suzanne Buffam in her introduction to the new AList edition of this classic Canlit work. (And don't you love the word 'parentheticals'?) I'm not sure that I *do* understand
For years, a set of loose photocopied pages were housed on my bookshelf with the M's. (Do you do this, too?) Then, they were tucked inside my copy of Lisa Moore's Alligator: her short story "Azalea", which first appeared in the March/April 2002 issue of THIS Magazine. I was first drawn
I've mentioned it before, that little tingle you get when you feel like a book might just be the perfect match for you. Little, Brown & Company, 2012 And I know you know it. (I last mentioned it about Meg Mitchell Moore's So Far Away, but sometimes it
On the surface, Nalo Hopkinson's YA novel is about the chaos which ensues after a volcano emerges dramatically in Lake Ontario. Simon & Schuster, 2012 It also, however, takes on the chaotic elements of the reader's society: the sexism, ableism, homophobia and racism that characterizes the everyday world
