Larissa Lai’s latest book is a masterful long poem that spins in and out of chaos and order, charting the movement of the Furies, the three Greco-Roman goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Joy is enjambed ... Read More »
We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »
March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
We Dream Medicine Dreams, by author, artist, and bioethicist Lisa Boivin, a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the Northwest Territories, is a moving and insightful picture book honouring the enduring relationship between ... Read More »
March 29, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Harry and her hare siblings are out for a walk when their unsuspecting parents are duped and devoured by a coyote. Destitute and with a newly empty bedroom in the house, the kids convert the ... Read More »
March 25, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
In her debut collection, A Number of Stunning Attacks, Jessi MacEachern creates poetry within individual words and sparse lines. The six poems recall the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels in how MacEachern makes ... Read More »
Last year, Marie-Noëlle Hébert won the Prix des libraires du Québec for the French-language title La grosse laide, a deeply emotional graphic memoir chronicling her years-long battle with an eating disorder. The English translation, My ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
As readers, we are accustomed to thematic collections of short fiction, everything from Christmas stories to detective stories featuring cats to stories inspired by a Rush album. These collections, though, are generally multi-author anthologies. In ... Read More »
March 22, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews
Basking in the glow of a Biden-Harris White House, America may appear to have a newly progressive sheen, but it’s not bright enough to blind observers to the country’s ugly prejudices. Sabina Khan, author of ... Read More »
March 18, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Most people have something they fantasize about quitting (or at least cutting back on). While these desires to change sometimes have a basis in our health, whether bodily or financial – those weekly stress-relieving trips ... Read More »
March 18, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
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