Brossard's work a touchstone

Fluid Arguments: Essays by Nicole Brossard review

For years, and come of age during Quebec's Quiet Revolution, Quebecois author Nicole Brossard has been a touchstone for writing and writers on a variety of fronts, from sexual politics, feminism, mothering, Quebec/language politics and the avant-garde. Wandering through Ottawa's mother tongue books a few days ago, I discovered a collection of Brossard's essays that had been recently published, Fluid Arguments. A collection nearly three hundred pages in length, it includes pieces originally written in both French and English, and is the first English collection of Brossard's that has no French equivalent, collecting pieces scattered over the years with the thread of her concerns working their constant way through.... A new book of essays by Nicole Brossard is long overdue.