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there’s more

In two new poetry collections, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s there’s more and Laila Malik’s archipelago, home is a moving, shifting entity. Umezurike’s first poem opens with the line, “Home is what the tortoise bears on its ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

archipelago

By Laila Malik

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Instructions for the Drowning

By Steven Heighton

The first and last stories in Steven Heighton’s posthumous collection both feature characters punching someone with unintended consequences. In the title story, which opens the book, Ray recalls his father advising him that the only ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Take Off!

By Lea Beddia

In Lea Beddia’s Take Off!, Marissa is having a hard time in her final year of high school. She’s being bullied by her former friend, Aimee, and she needs to pull up her low grades ... Read More »

March 29, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

City Beet

By Tziporah Cohen and Udayana Lugo (ill.)

With City Beet, Tziporah Cohen has penned a fun, breezy, heartwarming story about the challenge of uprooting a stubborn beet in time for the neighbourhood block party. Victoria and Mrs. Kosta appear as a dynamic ... Read More »

March 27, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ The Fake

By Zoe Whittall

Cammie, the chaotic force at the core of Zoe Whittall’s fifth novel, The Fake, can charm anyone. Even you, dear reader. “You’re a smart person, obviously,” she writes in an introduction. “You read books.” Much ... Read More »

March 22, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Smile So Big

By Sunshine Quem Tenasco and Chief Lady Bird (ill.)

Challa, a young Anishinaabe girl, has a big, toothy smile that can light up a room. Unfortunately, the kids at school tease her about her smile. One day, she comes home from school in tears ... Read More »

March 22, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel

By Jeannie Marshall

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is currently touring event centres across Europe and North America (including a stop in Toronto this spring), promising a “life-size, up-close, never-before-seen perspective” of one of the world’s most celebrated ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, History, Memoir & Biography

★ Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By Quinn Slobodian

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that stripped Walt Disney World of its special zoning – a move critics said was blatant retaliation for Disney’s opposition to DeSantis’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Business & Economics, History, Politics & Current Affairs

No Place Like Home

By Linh S. Nguyễn

Lost in her favourite books, 11-year-old Lan can almost forget about how much she misses her mother and younger brother, both still in Việt Nam. Though books can’t quite make the basement apartment she shares ... Read More »

March 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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