All the joys of the season
December 2021
& stay safe. We’ll meet again in 2022!
Root Cellars and Flying Fish: the Bonavista Biennale
BY Matthew Hollett
Biennales happen in big cities: Venice, Istanbul, São Paulo, Berlin. So the idea of a ‘Bonavista Biennale’ sounds incongruous, something like proposing Woodstock at Woody Point, or an Olympics at Ochre Pit Cove.
“I wanted to make sure that any story I told was a funny story”:
Part two of our conversation with Rick Mercer about his latest book, The Road Years. Did you keep a journal during the seasons of The Rick Mercer Report? I never did….
Katherine Harvey casts a Green Blue Eye: “I’ve always been drawn to tragedy and am most compelled by complicated female characters.”
Your heroines – Iris Woodsen here, Grace in Quiet Time – are complicated, conflicted figures – not Gothic, exactly, but perhaps akin to that – do you see them taking…