CanLit and geopolitics

 



 

Canadian publishing produces very few works of fiction about the gritty, brutal world of bare knuckles geopolitics. The result is a somewhat limited sense of national self; we’re perceived as a nice country, but also a naive one. Can Canadian fiction improve in this regard?

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