The Backlist

Here are the books we've featured so far in our ongoing series The Backlist, on Canadian novels from decades past that have fallen out of public memory. 

Chapter 1: Theresa Kishkan on Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel

Chapter 2: Sarah Weinman on Helen Weinzweig's Basic Black with Pearls

                  Essay: What Canadian author Helen Weinzweig taught me about writing and marriage

Chapter 3: George Elliot Clarke on Austin Clarke's The Origin of Waves

Chapter 4: Doug Gibson on Hugh MacLennan's The Watch That Ends the Night

Chapter 5: Guy Vanderhaeghe on Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House

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