Through a variety of critical approaches, Subject to Criticism juxtaposes the literary with the personal, the theoretical with the biographical. Within the context of essays, reviews, letters and interviews, Lola Lemire Tostevin examines the writing of other writers and identifies recurring themes that stimulate her own writing process. Her views are often provocative, sometimes ambivalent, even rebellious, as she expands the usually objective stance of literary criticism with intimate and subjective experience.

Lola Lemire Tostevin is a bilingual Canadian writer who works mainly in English. She is the author of three novels, eight collections of poetry, numerous pieces of short fiction, and a collection of literary essays and criticism. She has translated into English the work of many writers, including Anne Hébert, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Paule Thévenin, and she has translated into French Michael Ondaatje’s Elimination Dance. Her novel Frog Moon was translated into French and two of her collections of poetry, Color of Her Speech and ’sophie, were translated into Italian. Her most recent novel, The Other Sister, was published in the fall of 2008.Tostevin has taught creative writing at York University, Toronto, and served as writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, London. She is presently preparing a second collection of literary essays and is working on a series of short fictions.

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