Articles in Books


March 2010

Melting Plots

Two recent novels illuminate immigrants’ different experiences in English and French Canada


January 2010

Right of Passage

Will the promise of the Northwest Passage finally be realized?


December 2009

Dances with Werewolves

Kelley Armstrong celebrates the animal within


October 2009

How to Read a Masterpiece

Coming to terms with Marie-Claire Blais


July 2009

On Hugh MacLennan’s Watch

Hugh MacLennan’s bestseller The Watch That Ends the Night turns fifty


June 2009

Back In Palookaville

Cartoonist and designer Seth emerges as comics’ premier historian


May 2009

That Old Flame

After sixty years, Harlequin Romance books are still enslaving readers. What’s their secret?


April 2009

Extraordinary Canadians

In a new biography series, Canada is reimagined as a liberal Protestant nation


September 2008

The Other Darwin

The nineteenth-century naturalist gets emotional


July 2008

Post-Colonial Journeys

In the age of the global citizen, travel literature is in crisis

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April 2007
April 2007
by The Walrus Readers | APRIL 2007
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Book Review: Blackouts
Book Review: Blackouts
by Jared Bland | APRIL 2008
Blackouts by Craig Boyko McClelland & Stewart (2008), 317 pp. “Mr. Bearden does not have a wife,”