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This collection of 15 essays - mostly from younger scholars in the field of Canadian sport studies - is one such work. Compiled by Carly Adams, a leading light in sport and recreation history in Canada, the collection sweeps broadly across Canada's sporting universe. [Extracted from the article]

With this his ninth novel,[1] Boualem Sansal takes on the extraordinary task of rewriting the Book of Genesis in and for the modern age. This new covenant or fifth alliance follows those of the prophets Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, each of whom appear in the novel's four epigraphs. Abraham ou La cinquième Alliance: by Boualem Sansal, Paris, Gallimard, 2020, 288 pp., €21(softcover), ISBN 978-2-0729-0648-0. [Extracted from the article]

I La guerre est une ruse i , by French author Frédéric Paulin, and I 1994 i , by the Algerian journalist and writer Adlène Meddi, are political thrillers set during the Algerian civil war. The above discussion is not, however, intended to dismiss the historical value and overall perspective of Paulin's novel, nor is it meant to suggest that Meddi's life experiences make his novel more "authentic". Marketed as crime fiction, Paulin's and Meddi's novels offer yet another avenue for critical inquiry. Working within generic limitations, Paulin and Meddi intentionally and inventively subvert elements of the crime-fiction formula. [Extracted from the article]

Perhaps the narrator's story would have gone untold had she not granted the writer, Farida, access to her apartment and to herself. Although Farida's visits eventually cease, leaving both narrator and reader to wonder if her novel will ever be published - or if Farida even had the intention to write such a book in the first place - the narrator discovers that their conversations and the journal entries they triggered, allow her to reclaim her body, her voice, and her place in society. While these conversations visibly make the narrator's interlocutor uncomfortable, they signify the duplicity of Algerian society and of Farida's character: 'Le visible et le caché. [Extracted from the article]

After I Alger, le cri i (Éditions Barzakh, 2013), Samir Toumi revisits Algeria's national metanarrative in his latest novel, I L'effacement i , in which a strange ailment plagues the unnamed narrator. While this concluding sentence may indicate that the narrator has gone mad or has perhaps even died, Toumi uses the metaphor of disease to articulate an unforgiving critique of contemporary Algerian society. The description the narrator paints for his psychologist nevertheless finds resonance in how the narrator's fiancé and her friends describe contemporary Algeria and the condition of post-1962 Algerians. [Extracted from the article]

Although Amar 404 specifically refers to the censorship of political activism on social media during the Ben Ali era, Louatah's title appears to run contrary to the spirit of Amar 404. His novel recounts the creation of a fictitious Internet application, '404', by a Franco-Algerian math prodigy, Allia, to prevent online content from going viral - an application that would have certainly impeded the popular uprisings in the early 2010s. Given these socio-political consequences of Allia's application, readers are not surprised when Kader later uses 404 and his 5G network, Wilaya, to create a national counter-history. [Extracted from the article]