Stray Heideggers

Rawi Hage's STRAY DOGS has its problems, but where else in CanLit can you find the German philosopher doppelgänging as a retired philosophy prof in the Laurentians

Is Rawi Hage the last macho voice in Canadian literature? Now that women dominate the large multinational publishing houses in Canada, this isn’t necessarily the criticism of the kind that I might have written when men dominated fiction publishing and the macho voices were many and diverse. (I messaged a friend who’s a fan of Junot Diaz and Knausgaard: …