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The author explores the subjects of Canadian novels. She states that official politics has never been a prevalent theme in Canadian fiction and that political figures are occasionally the focus of fiction. She claims that a lot of contemporary Canadian novels focus on the middle class. She also mentions some novels that explore class and labor conflicts, including Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" and John Bemrose's "The Island Walkers."

The article presents information on Canadian crime writing. Crime writer David Skene-Melvin believes that Canadian crime writing is "more subtle, more psychological, more caring" than in the U.S. He says that Canadian crime writing in particular and Canadian literature in general, suffered from a serious problem: the slighting of Canadian authors.