Writings

An Evening with Kim Thúy In a seamless blend of memoir and fiction, Kim Thúy’s first novel, Ru (R...

Fiction, Poetry and Black History   The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín Toronto, ON: M...

Fiction and Historical Crime   Under Budapest by Ailsa Kay Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane,...

Fiction   The Proxy Bride by Terri Favro Toronto, ON: Quattro Books, 2012 $14.95, 123 pp This...

Welcome “Watch your ass.” My sister Meena laughed, but Aunt Radhika was serious. “Prepare yourself. It’s ...

Candy Apple-Red Corvette Durke was not very well liked by Vincent, his coworker, who bought tickets...

Whispers Today Dr. Weiss brings Celia to where it all started: the church she had defaced a week earlier....

Party Politics The first party I can remember was my own birthday party. It was my sixth birthday,...

The Immigrant’s Conquest in the Snowy City   From the window you can see sombre cloud ranged i...

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Plato must have needed the flame of a candle, and a concave mirror t...

  Air   1. First Breath   All I can do is breathe and crystal pebbles gently...

To See Her Full Like Filled Seats In a restaurant you both can’t afford, this is the third dinner. The b...

Isle            No far-fetched fragrance...

*Elegy for a Nation (For Chinua Achebe at 70 ) I Ah, Chinua, are you grapevine wired? It sings:...

Grahamstown Opera (For Jamie) I How could I say all I wanted to say, when you snatched...