This nuanced and highly original essay reads Rawi Hage‘s novel Cockroach as an indictment of Canadian capitalist excess. Paying close attention to the novel‘s apocalyptic imagery, it examines the social and environmental costs of an ethos that encourages rapaciousness. This makes perfect sense. After all, who is better placed to proclaim our wastefulness and disrupt our complacency than the six-foot tall cockroach that narrates this novel? -Dr. Carrie Dawson
