Report on the Afterlife of Culture

Stephen Henighan: Stephen Henighan's books include Lost Province: Adventures in a Moldovan Family, A Grave in the Air, The Streets of Winter and A Report on the Afterlife of Culture. A nominee for the Governor General of Canada's Literary Award, he teaches at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

"There are problems with Canadian literature, not the least being the undue praise of mediocrity. Henighan does us a service by raising this and other contentious issues."&#8212Globe and Mail "For his willingness to say the unsayable, and his enthusiastic piercing of the balloons of Canadian literary pretension, Henighan's new volume is a welcome addition to the annals of CanLit criticism."&#8212Quill & Quire "One of the strengths of this book is Henighan's global connections. He is well travelled as well as well read. A Report on the Afterlife of Culture speaks to a global audience (while maintaining the local specificities of its Canadian roots, of course)."&#8212Danforth Review "If you are one of those people who can read non-fiction in the summer, please attempt this much-needed critique of Canadian culture. Then maybe we can all get together as Canadians and agree to start having more fun, instead of writing books about vast fields of snow and falling in love with animals."&#8212The Tyee "These pieces provide a demonstration of Henighan's vast reading of Canada's and the world's literatures and languages... This book both reiterates and furthers many of the debates that have made Henighan a noted figure in Canadian literary circles."&#8212Canadian Literature