Arts

Steven Heighton, Queen's MA '86 and accomplished author, had no interest in performing his own songs until the owner of Wolfe Island Records heard him play.Continue...

On July 20, Omar El Akkad’s second novel What Strange Paradise will debut. But El Akkad’s creative writing career began on a different day: September 11, 2001, in Professor Carolyn Smart’s creative writing class.Continue...

Clanny Mugabe, Art Sci ’23, is a second-year student who explores themes of decolonization, mythology, and speculative fiction in her artwork. Like many artists, Mugabe has struggled to continue creating art as quarantine and lockdowns continue in Canada.Continue...

William Carroll is a visual artist whose recent works include home-grown crystals and a giant spray foam cherry pie.Continue...

Bruce Kauffman has been opening doors for artists for 12 years.Continue...

Natara Ng, Kin ’23, won The Journal ’s Winter 2021 short story contest for “Her Last Day,” the subtle tale of a lonely man tending a garden with a twist: both the man and his plants are more than meets the eye.Continue...

Death smells like roses.Continue...

“There is no faith within words of abhorrence,” writes Emily Clare, ArtSci ’21, winner of The Journal ’s Winter 2021 poetry contest in her piece titled “Allies.”Continue...

While it’s true random events often have the power to drastically change the course of our lives, The Glass Hotel, a Canadian novel by Emily St. John Mandel, undermines the agency women have in their romantic relationships.Continue...