I travel light, but couldn’t resist buying those posters in Montreal. Their cardboard tube poked out of my pack like an antenna or concealed weapon. One’s a parody crest for […]

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK – VERSO In his latest publication, Slovenian cultural critic Slavoj Žižek tackles the flurry of “shattering events” that have come to define 2011, including the Occupy Wall Street […]

KAYT BURGESS – 3-DAY BOOKS While most of us are trying to drink the last dregs of summer away over the Labour Day long weekend, writers all over the world […]

FIRST SPRING GRASS FIRE – ARSENAL PULP PRESS Rae Spoon’s debut fiction novel, a largely autobiographical coming-of-age story about finding their place (the transgender indie electronica artist uses “they” as […]

EDITED BY STEPHEN DUNCOMBE & MAXWELL TREMBLAY – VERSO Punk has largely been considered the white person’s rebellion/resistance music par excellence. While it does have roots in rock and roll […]

MARK JOWETT – RED LEAF Mark Jowett is perhaps better known as one of the founders of Nettwerk Music Group, an independent music company that bills itself as the most […]

ROBERT RODRIGUEZ – BACKBEAT BOOKS As Robert Rodriguez admits in the introduction to his latest book on the Beatles, the Fab Four are perhaps one of the most over-exposed and […]