I’m in a rut and need some help! I’ve been married for ten years now and things just don’t seem the same any more. We used to laugh and have fun. Our relationship was a carnival of excitement and mutual discovery. MORE >

In the Pocket

by Charlene Diehl

“I say JAZZ! You say CAPITAL!” As far back as 2004, music lovers in Winnipeg were getting those instructions from Steve Kirby, a charismatic newcomer to the jazz scene here. MORE >

Observations from New France

By Byron Rempel

Here’s what they should do: get all the writers together and send them off to an island somewhere. It’d be a republic of obscurity and desire. MORE >

The Lush Life

Editor’s note:

On the occasion of Crown Royal, lovingly brewed in Gimli, Manitoba, having received the title of 2016 World Whisky of the Year for its Northern Harvest Rye, we thought it was time to put this classic issue 1, 2011 column by Alexander Foot back on the TWR front page. So enjoy the column, and these nuggets of holiday wisdom from Alexander Foot for the last day of 2015: “everyone should drink responsibly, and don’t f***ing mix your rye with cola.” MORE >

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The Lush Life

By Alexander Foot

“Monsieur, will it rain again today?” I asked the proprietor of our hotel in my execrable French.

“Pluie?” His thick eyebrows rose in indignation. “A Beaune? Jamais!” Rolling thunder shook the windows as the clouds opened up. MORE >

Anyhow, it seems that I’m married to this old dead guy. My dad was in the bathroom re-grouting some tiles when a man appeared at his side. MORE >

In the Pocket

By Charlene Diehl

Some winters are longer and colder and darker than others—I’ve clocked enough of them to know that when the inner weather lines up with the outer, you can become a bit like the tundra. Hard, like iron. MORE >

The Lush Life

We’re re-posting Alexander Foot’s wine advice column for the impending end of the world (according to ancient Mayan wisdom) coming on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. If the world continues, so will regular posts on TWR: MORE >

Anyhow, it seems that I’m married to this old dead guy. My dad was in the bathroom re-grouting some tiles when a man appeared at his side. MORE >

Observations from New France

By Byron Rempel

The revolution will not be available in print format.

What happens when an industry crumbles and writers multiply? MORE >

On the Town

Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Part III & envoi

Reviewed by John Herbert Cunningham MORE >

On the Town

Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Part II, Dance 2011 edition

Reviewed by John Herbert Cunningham MORE >

On the Town

Winnipeg Fringe Festival, July 2011

Reviewed by John Herbert Cunningham MORE >

On the Town

Winnipeg Folk Festival, July 6-10, 2011, Birds Hill Park

Reviewed by John Herbert Cunningham   MORE >

Standing on the lip of a new year, I’m joining the multitudes and looking in my rear-view mirror one more time. For me, one of the highlights of the late fall was the Randy Brecker tribute to Louis Armstrong MORE >

Observations from New France

By Byron Rempel

The revolution will not be available in print format.

What happens when an industry crumbles and writers multiply? MORE >

Stand Up Guy

By Bruce Clark

The sad yet cliché pictures from the Attawapiskat First Nation have renewed the inevitable finger pointing and recriminations MORE >

Stand Up Guy

By Bruce Clark

When kids come to my door selling snack food in the name of charity, I have to hold back on my Marxist rants against the sinister corporations taking advantage of child enslavement. MORE >

The Sporting Life

By John K. Samson

I imagine Monday, October 10th, 2011, the day after the NHL made its now inevitable-seeming return, MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smythe-Jones

All those nice young Occupiers have got me thinking about the state of the world. MORE >

The shih-tzu disappearances continue at a bad rate in the neighbourhood, and it can only be the alligators’ work. MORE >

Stand Up Guy

By Bruce Clark

The ironically modern-looking Center for Youth Excellence has finally opened its doors in Winnipeg’s heart of darkness. Youth For Christ, an evangelical, international cult MORE >

Up on the Farm

By Heather Walker

I invented the iPod. I was walking past an antique store and saw a jukebox, MORE >

Up on the Farm

By Heather Walker

In the spring of 2007 we decided that our city life would not be enough, no matter how many karaoke parties we hosted. MORE >

At a show at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival this past April, I made some off the cuff comments about Sam Katz MORE >

Stand Up Guy

By Bruce Clark

There are now three official languages in Quebec: French, English and Whine-eese, MORE >

The Downlow on Parnassus

By Lori Cayer

I recently culled my massive collection of poetry books. I mean no offense MORE >

The Readings Report

The Symposium on Manitoba Writing, presented by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild, May 9-12, 2012, at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg

By Ted Landrum  MORE >

The Readings Report

By Lori Cayer

Now, I’ve put on a few poetry readings in my day MORE >

Up on the Farm

By Heather Walker

On a hot August day a middle-aged Greek man strides through the farmers’ market, sees our sandwich board, and stops to read it again. MORE >

I recently culled my massive collection of poetry books. I mean no offense MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smyth-Jones

Dear readers,

It’s been a difficult summer to get annoyed or stay annoyed. MORE >

Up on the Farm

By Heather Walker

I crave an apocalypse. Not the sort where the earth implodes, or even the kind that wipes out half the population and creates a Lord of the Flies society. MORE >

Last time we met, as I’m sure you’ll recall, the alligators had the upper hand. MORE >

The Readings Report

By Harriet Zaidman

Prairie pride burst onstage during a marquee event at the Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival Tuesday evening.  MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smyth-Jones

Dear readers,

It’s been a difficult summer to get annoyed or stay annoyed. MORE >

Up on the Farm

By Heather McLeod

My partner Brock, a full-time vegetable farmer, spends his work day lifting heavy tubs of carrots, yanking out overgrown weeds and balancing precariously on ladders to build greenhouses. MORE >

Last time we met, as I’m sure you’ll recall, the alligators had the upper hand. MORE >

The Downlow on Parnassus

By Lori Cayer

How much do we urban metro types think about farming? MORE >

“My first show was here actually at Ozzy’s for Manitoba Music’s New Music Wednesdays,” Eagle Lake Owls’ frontman Andy Cole says MORE >

Extended Play

By Jen Zoratti

I have a long, complicated and completely one-sided personal relationship with Justin Timberlake. MORE >

In the Pocket

By Charlene Diehl

A decade ago, the Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba was looking to inject some energy into its jazz offerings, and Steve Kirby, a respected jazz bassist in New York, was on their list of candidates. MORE >

In the Pocket

By Charlene Diehl

As a kid, I had two main gravitational pulls: music and books. It’s true I liked to eat, ride my bike, sew, provoke my sister, MORE >

The Lush Life

By Alexander Foot

As fans of this occasional column might know, I am not a big beer lover. This is not due to snobbery or some obscure medical condition. MORE >

Here is what I knew about Mormonism before reading Marita Dachsel’s Glossolalia. MORE >

The Lush Life

By Alexander Foot

As fans of this occasional column might know, I am not a big beer lover. This is not due to snobbery or some obscure medical condition. MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smyth-Jones

One of the good things about getting old (supposedly) is that one is stripped of gross desire and blind ambition MORE >

Only days before the exhibit was scheduled to end, I went to the Winnipeg Art Gallery to see the 100 Masters exhibit. MORE >

The Readings Report

By Harriet Zaidman

Writers aren’t known for their prowess on the dance floor, but the authors featured at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival’s first Mainstage event on Monday night showed off their talents at boogying, strutting and shimmying through the game of words. MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smyth-Jones

I don’t know why it’s only me writing this column. It seems a lot of people, in a lot of places, are pretty pissed off. MORE >

Should one’s drinking habits be affected by the health of one’s bank account? MORE >

About prizes: I will say I’d like to win one, as a lot of writers do, but they are so fraught. MORE >

The Lush Life

By Alexander Foot

Should one’s drinking habits be affected by the health of one’s bank account? MORE >

The Readings Report

By Harriet Zaidman

The stars shone brightly over the skies of Winnipeg Tuesday evening, and inside the Manitoba for Theatre for Young People, six powerhouse female writers illuminated the main stage of  The Winnipeg International Writers Festival “Women on the Front Lines” event. MORE >

Things That Piss Me Off

By Agnes Smyth-Jones

I don’t know why it’s only me writing this column. It seems a lot of people, in a lot of places, are pretty pissed off. MORE >

A decade ago, the Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba was looking to inject some energy into its jazz offerings, and Steve Kirby, a respected jazz bassist in New York, was on their list of candidates. MORE >

The Downlow on Parnassus

By Lori Cayer

How much do we urban metro types think about farming? MORE >

The Readings Report

By Harriet Zaidman

The stars shone brightly over the skies of Winnipeg Tuesday evening, and inside the Manitoba for Theatre for Young People, six powerhouse female writers illuminated the main stage of  The Winnipeg International Writers Festival “Women on the Front Lines” event. MORE >

Like a babe born new unto the world, I came to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra with a clean slate. Never studied it in school, never saw it performed on stage or on screen. I never even watched Rome the TV series. MORE >

I ain’t afraid of no ghosts — Winnipeg ghosts, that is. Buildings have ghosts, become ghosts. You pass them every day and they become invisible. MORE >

Man is Nicolas Billon hot in Winnipeg right now. Along with Iceland, the season opener for Theatre Projects Manitoba (TPM), the Governor General’s Award winner’s work will also be seen at Cercle Molière and Prairie Theatre Exchange. MORE >

It’s that time of year again, The 16th Annual Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s Master Playwright Festival, and 2016 is in celebration of British author Alan Ayckbourn. MORE >

Gleeful villainy. Debbie Patterson’s Richard III is practically buoyant with delight in his vicious words and horrible deeds. And Richard is terrible indeed. MORE >

Guided by a mutual acquaintance, several years ago I began intermittently reading Stephen Mitchelmore’s blog, “This Space.” MORE >

In this slender book, New Directions has provided bilingual readers with English and French texts of a memoir-like fiction featuring a nameless narrator (hereafter N.), a vendor (also unnamed), and various plants and insects. MORE >

Youthful Appetite

By Anita Daher

When you were adolescent, did you dream of flying? I did. I remember the very first time. MORE >

Resolutions often follow hot on the heels of holiday excess. Here at The Winnipeg Review, we’d rather not champion Marie Kondo-esque appeals to minimalism—at least, that is, when it comes to reading. MORE >

Offshore Drilling: Reviews In Translation

By Jeff Bursey

According to publicity material, Rosa Liksom (born in 1958 as Anni Ylävaara) is from a tiny Sami village “where her parents were reindeer breeders and farmers.” MORE >

Youthful Appetite

By Anita Daher

Multi-award-winning author Shane Peacock jokes that he is from a place that doesn’t exist. A perfect start for someone who conjures up character and place. That place is Port Arthur, one of two towns that amalgamated to become Thunder Bay. MORE >

Welcome to issue 27, the first women-only issue of the Winnipeg Review! For this Spring issue, we’ve decided to showcase women writers in our ongoing commitment to provide fair and diverse representation. MORE >

Readership Survey

Perhaps you are a dedicated reader of the Winnipeg Review who is itching to provide your feedback to help us improve. (We really hope so!) MORE >

Stage and Craft

By Michelle Palansky

I sat down with Claire Thérèse, Associate Artist of One Trunk Theatre to discuss her upcoming workshop presentation of Embargo. Before we go any further, let’s unpack. MORE >

Youthful Appetite

By Anita Daher

Multi-award-winning author Alice Kuipers has a knack for whisking readers into the lives and loves of her characters, who are always believable, and often with unique gifts. MORE >

In Elaine Dewar’s CanLit whodunit (or, more accurately, howdunit), The Handover, she describes the sale of McClelland & Stewart to Random House, which is owned by the German multinational Bertelsmann, as the “slow, secret murder of Canada’s nationalist publishing policy.”

What is Canada’s nationalist publishing policy? MORE >

Offshore Drilling: Reviews In Translation

By Jeff Bursey

Introduction

In his introduction to Chronicle of the Murdered House (winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction), Benjamin Moser briefly presents the life and art of Lúcio Cardoso (1912–1968) for an English-speaking audience who would be largely unfamiliar with his work or place in Brazilian literature. MORE >

Youthful Appetite

By Anita Daher

Not too long ago I was invited with several others to present at a book club gathering in Steinbach, Manitoba. On hearing Winnipeg author Gabriele Goldstone read a compelling excerpt from her novel, Red Stone (Rebelight Publishing, 2015)—the first in her planned series of four—I was stuck by two things. First, why hadn’t I read this novel yet? MORE >

As a serial procrastinator, I have procrastinated more than usual over the writing of this column, because its subject matter marks the end of something I care about very much: the end of this enterprise, The Winnipeg Review. The difficult decision to terminate publication was entirely mine. Six years of running on a shoestring made me long for thicker string and a better shoe, but those longings remain unfulfilled. MORE >

From the Editor's Desk

By Julienne Isaacs

Okay, you got us: we haven’t actually reviewed “all you need to read” in our Fall edition—not by a long shot, considering publishers’ crowded launch lineups during the book business’ busiest time of year. But we can offer you a place to start, one stemming from a unique vantage point in Canadian publishing. MORE >

Offshore Drilling: Reviews In Translation

By Jeff Bursey

Introduction

At the beginning of the end of summer I spent pleasurable time reading reminiscences written by an unnamed narrator we are encouraged to think of as Anne Garréta, often referring to herself as “you,” that were composed according to a guideline (one of many) confidently outlined in the “Ante Scriptum” to Not One Day: MORE >

Youthful Appetite

By Anita Daher

Whether Narnia, a small Swedish village, or something else entirely, we’ve all read novels set in a world we’d love to hang out in for a while. For me, such a place is the one the seaside property author Polly Horvath created in The Night Garden (Farrar Strauss, Puffin Canada), her recently launched 16^th novel. It is, according to the back cover, a story about a magical garden that grants wishes. MORE >