Moetown Hoedown
By Melissa Bovaird Vernon Smith doesn’t hate the term “alt country,” he is just proud to be the first to […]
Issue 39
Canadian Internet Radio Take-over
Indie Love Radio By Melissa Bessey When we think of Canadian independent music, visions of unknown garage bands and seedy […]
Indie Lit Makes It Big in Hungary
By Richard Rosenbaum Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the resulting chaos across Eastern […]
Toronto Free Library
By Norah Franklin This summer, curators Maiko Tanaka and Sarah Todd will explore the familiar institution of the library within […]
Zoe Whittall
By Shannon Webb-Campbell Rugby made poet Tanya Davis gay. Anne-Marie MacDonald fell on her knees. Anna Camilleri became a red […]
E-Publishers
The future of printed matter is looking more and more like a computer screen, but that doesn’t necessarily mean progress […]
The Bloody Matriarch
Visual and performance artist Jesika Joy opens up about spirituality, feminism, dead animals and their relationship to her work By […]
Conceptualizing Theories In Motion
By Sam Sutherland Driven into the ground by the excess of 70s prog-rock (a grim reminder that God still hates […]
Mariko Tamaki Shows Some Skim
The author bares all in her new graphic novel By Erin Kobayashi Looking at writer Mariko Tamaki is like staring […]
Wey-hey and Up She Rises
Land-locked prairie poets bring the sea to the heartland By Andrew Wedderburn Booty, a collaborative pirate burlesque performance poem by […]
The Coolest Small Presses You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
By Richard Rosenbaum In the world of small presses, some are smaller than others; but that just means there’s room […]
Autobiographic
Graphic novels often moonlight as memoirs. David Silverberg investigates why this is, and whether it makes for compelling reading or […]