Literature
  • 9 years 1 month 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.
  • 9 years 10 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...
  • 10 years 8 months 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...
  • 1 month 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...
  • 1 month 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...
  • 8 months 3 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...
  • 8 months 2 weeks ago

Give George R.R. Martin a break—he doesn’t owe us anything

We need to stop criticizing George R.R. Martin for not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. Continue...
  • 1 year 4 days ago

Exploring the meaning of family in fiction

As a live-at-home Kingstonian, the end of exam season has always been awkward for me.Continue...
  • 1 year 5 months ago

‘The Undergraduate Review’ publishes 33rd annual issue

The Undergraduate Review (UR), a Queen’s arts and literature-focused magazine, released their 33rd annual issue on Jun. 4th.Continue...
Julia Harmsworth
  • 1 year 9 months ago

In defense of YA literature: teenage experiences are valuable, too

A lot of people put down Young Adult (YA) literature. Not only is it considered less valuable than other literary genres by the academic English community, but the general public often frowns upon readers of the genre who lie outside of its targeted age demographic. It’s labelled unrealistic, inconsequential, and just plain cheesy.Continue...

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