A few weeks ago, I held Le Salon’s first ever author event with Rachel Vorona Cote to discuss her 2020 book Too Much: How Victorian...

Why does somethings seem scary? Read about Freud's theory of the uncanny to understand how writers and movies manipulate our expectations.

It may seem like it removes the funny ha-ha part of humour to talk about why we laugh, but there is a good reason to take a closer look:...

Traditionally Canadian Literature, or CanLit, has highlighted voices of European settlers, been divided along English versus French...

Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature (2016) by Shelley DeWees is a delightful...

How do you review a book that is 300 years old? The grammar, punctuation, and narrative structure are not like anything we see in today's...

"Bildungsroman" is a German word meaning novel of education or formation. The term has become a literary category for written works whose...

When diving into literary criticism, I always encourage people to start with reader-response theory because it is something most people...

Back to school this year looks a lot different for many students with parents having to step into roles traditionally filled by their...

Don’t let your eyes glaze over! These bullets distill the complex types of literary criticism. Not only have you likely already heard of...