Bronwyn Averett

It’s happened. I finally got around to my inevitable encounter with The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments. This might not seem remarkable but it always struck me as a significant missing piece of my personal literary canon, given that I’m something of an Atwood completist (The Penelopiad, anyone?). What can I say? I just never Read more

Last Saturday B and I went to see the audiovisual installation ICE at the Phi Centre, which combines live contemporary classical music with sound and video projection. We’ve been trying to get to the Phi for a while and let me tell you, you can try to do anything for a while and not get Read more

This year for my (redacted)th birthday, B treated us to this gorgeous show. As a not-from-Quebec-er I am not so familiar with the work of Jean-Paul Riopelle, but this was an inspiring opportunity to learn more. Created by the 7 Doigts de la main collective — known for their continual succession of innovative productions, this Read more

Three things for now. First, I just finished reading Erika Swyler’s Light from Other Stars and I’m picking myself up off the floor, as we speak. There are books that seem to have so much of the author’s heart in them that it feels an extraordinary privilege to read. I admired The Book of Speculation Read more

I’ve been keeping busy here out in the prairies. Work and children and the ever-evolving news cycle, which is so horrific at this point that I’m not even going to make vague references to prove the fact that I am a qualifiably Engaged Person, and you’ll just have to trust me that I’m reading the Read more