In the Upper Country follows Lensinda Martin as she finds a home among a community of formerly enslaved refugees living in southwestern Ontario during the mid-1800s.
New art book gives textile artist Mariette Rousseau-Vermette her overdue recognition
Toula Drimonis on her runaway success and Quebec’s politics of immigration
We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants and Belonging in Canada (Linda Leith Publishing) chronicles Drimonis’s own family history and delves into the discrimination faced by Italians, Jews, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Sudanese and Syrians in the province.
Slam Coalkan poetry anthology celebrates work of Indigenous slam poets
A joint event put on by the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) and the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is commemorated in an anthology published by Kegedonce Press.
Martha Schabas on the tension between appearance and truth
“I’m interested in the comparison between what we consider a performative art and what we consider a creative one, and the point at which they might overlap.”
Harnessing the power of images to tell the real story of heroin use in Canada
In Heroin: An Illustrated History, scholar and activist Susan Boyd wanted to tell the story not only of how heroin went from prescribed drug to illegal substance, but also of the harm-reduction activists and heroin users who have mounted a sustained resistance to prohibition and called attention to the continued overdose crisis.
Writing a graphic memoir on the road reminded Jon Claytor that life is about the journey, not the destination
When he set off in 2019 for an artist’s residency in Prince Rupert, B.C., Jon Claytor packed his paints and canvases, but he soon found himself scribbling line drawings on his tablet to record his cross-country travels. Those collected reflections became Take the Long Way Home, published this month by Conundrum Press.
Writer Sheree Fitch and fibre artist Deb Plestid celebrate the poetry of spring
Sing in the Spring! is arranged in poetic vignettes that celebrate the sounds, sights, smells, and textures of spring, all punctuated by delightful quilt illustrations.
To provide my little one a global imagination, I adapted stories from my childhood
Consuming the stories of the Panchatantra as a child allowed me to understand the socio-cultural ecosystem I was growing up in.
Novelist Beth Powning steps behind the lens – again – for Robert Osborne’s Hardy Apples
“With writing, there’s nothing to begin with,” Powning says. “With photography, you go behind the camera and the image is there.”
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