Literature

CanLit aglow thanks to Munro

Alice Munro has done Canadian literature a great favour by winning the Nobel Prize.Continue...

The critical and satirical

The audience laughs as Jon Stewart mocks the outcry against Obama’s latest push for more gun control, but there’s a sober message behind his tone.Continue...

Grad pens award-winning book

In 2009, the Queen’s alumnus spent 10 weeks at Fauna Foundation, a chimpanzee sanctuary located just south of Montreal. His time with the apes inspired him to pen this year’s Charles Taylor Prizewinner, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary.Continue...

Queen’s English hosts 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Event

On Thursday, March 23, Queen’s department of English celebrated author Suzette Mayr and her Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel, The Sleeping Car Porter. Continue...

Book Review: ‘None of This Is Serious’

None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka explores the existential reality of living amid looming catastrophe in a 277-page novel following Sophie, a recent university graduate, as she navigates friendship, anxiety, and the meaning of life.Continue...

Review: ‘The Sleeping Car Porter’

Trains, queerness, and dentistry don’t seem like they should go together, but in Suzette Mayr’s Giller Prize-awarded novel The Sleeping Car Porter , the seemingly divergent converge.Continue...

What's your medium?

Language is one of the first skills we develop as little humans.Continue...

Romance novels aren’t bad—they’re just about women

Dear cishet men: it’s not cool to hate on things just because women like them.Continue...

Book review: ‘We Spread’

Talented Kingston-based author and Queen’s alumni Iain Reid published his third novel We Spread on Sept. 27 via Simon & Schuster.Continue...

Approaching Ramadan as a sh—y Muslim

For most of my life, I’ve hated my parent’s faith and everything associated with it.Continue...

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