Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for ''

The Nation ''The Nation'' is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper ...

'' magazine and a former staff writer at ''

The New Republic ''The New Republic'' (often abbreviated as ''TNR'') is an American magazine focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts from a left-wing perspective. It publishes ten print magazines a year and a daily online platform. ''The New Y ...

''. The publications he has written for include '' The National Post'', ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

'', ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published new works by Jack Kerouac, ...

'', and '' Virginia Quarterly Review''. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the

Scotiabank Giller Prize The Giller Prize (known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005-2023) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried c ...

. His anthology ''A Comics Studies Reader'', with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award. Since May 2022 he has hosted ''The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer'' podcast, referring to a famous, if possibly distorted, quotation from Italian radical

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

. Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a

Sikh Sikhs (singular Sikh: or ; , ) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ''Si ...

Selected works

* ''Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium'' (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004) * ''A Comics Studies Reader'' (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008) * ''The Superhero Reader'' (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013) * ''Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education (with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012. * ''In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman'' (2013) * ''Sweet Lechery'' (2014)

References

External links

* *
The Time of Monsters
podcast. Canadian journalists Canadian literary critics Comics critics Comics scholars Living people The New Republic people Year of birth missing (living people) York University alumni Canadian writers of Asian descent Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian Sikhs Indian emigrants to Canada {{Canada-writer-stub