Literature
  • 9 years 5 months ago

CanLit aglow thanks to Munro

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

TV hosts Jon Stewart (above) and Stephen Colbert (below) use satire to criticize current events.
  • 10 years 2 months ago

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...
  • 11 years 2 weeks ago

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...
  • 9 hours 53 min ago

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...
  • 2 weeks 9 hours ago

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...
  • 3 weeks 8 hours ago

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...
  • 2 months 1 week ago

What's your medium?

Language is one of the first skills we develop as little humans.Continue...
  • 5 months 1 week ago

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...
  • 5 months 1 week ago

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...
  • 12 months 4 days ago

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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