So, Canada Reads starts today (and goes until Thursday), and since we at DailyXY strive to be both gentlemen and scholars, we decided to read all five books and tell you what we thought. Actually, Robson was the only one who did that, but he won’t shut up about it, … Read More
Fire and ice may have seemed good enough apocalypses for Robert Frost—but his was a simpler time. Or perhaps he possessed a more optimistic imagination than Margaret Atwood, who envisions the end of the civilization as the culmination of widespread environmental degradation, the cutthroat commodification of biology, and the hubristic … Read More
Indulge me for a second. Ever stuck around the Horseshoe Tavern, or wherever your local notable music venue may be, a couple too many hours after last call? A space once packed, now cavernous, walls of sound replaced with echoes, notes of stale beer hanging like curtains—and there’s you and … Read More
1968, Croydon Harbour, Labrador—remote as anywhere in modern Canada, I suppose. Remoteness is perhaps the defining mood of Annabel, so named for two of the book’s characters who are scarcely there for much of its pages. Our focus is Wayne, a child born intersex at a place and time where … Read More
When meeting with Canadian officials over land claims in the 1990s, a Gitksan elder asked, “If this is your land, where are your stories?” It’s a reasonable question—don’t the stories we tell about a place, in part, create a place? It’s doubtful that the elder had been reading Benedict Anderson; … Read More
