Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes (Harper Collins, 2012). 204 pp., $27.99 I really wanted to love this book. Intolerable chronicles the chaos experienced by author Kamal Al-Solaylee and his family in the modern Middle East. Al-Solaylee and his father, mother, and ten siblings...
Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). 297 pp., $29.95 Chris Fox reviews Alison Bechdel’s latest at The Coastal Spectator. If you’re wondering why Bechdel’s name sounds familiar, she’s the creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and...
In a writing workshop yesterday, my peers had a bad reaction to one writer’s use of the word “hooker.” This term is derogatory, they said. So it was jarring, hard to read. But sometimes a narrator or a character can say things that are derogatory, but in a way that is true to...
Rachel Rose, Song & Spectacle (Habour Publishing, 2012). Paperback, 112 pp., $18.95 In her third book of poetry, Rachel Rose delivers a collection soaked in maternal feeling and all things archetypically female — oceans, milky universes, blood, burial. The language is deceptively...
by Michael Walter Can the internet free us from Canada’s history of censorship? The Canadian government hasn’t always been the biggest protector of free speech. Sure, things have improved a lot in recent years; we’ve gradually seen the growth of an open public space where queer literature has made...
Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian writes a wonderful review of Plenitude Magazine Issue 1! As usual, Casey’s review is thorough and thoughtful, and I’m so happy she enjoyed the read! Read what all the fuss is about here: caseythecanadianlesbrarian
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Subscribe to Plenitude, and receive the inaugural issue today, August 31st, 2012. Issue 1 features new writing from Betsy Warland, Peter Knegt, Kevin Shaw, Stacy Brewster, Lindsay Cahill, Nancy Jo Cullen, Geer Austin, Trevor Corkum, Emilia Nielsen, Theodosia Henney, Matthew R.Loney, Alex Leslie...
