My Conversations with Canadians

To read Lee Maracle’s My Conversations with Canadians and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Blank back-to-back is to confront the very real possibility that Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in a moral universe whose long arc bends ... Read More »

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Blank: Essays and Interviews

By M. NourbeSe Philip

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Pink Umbrella

By Amélie Callot; Geneviève Godbout (ill.); Lara Hinchberger (trans.)

The rituals of courtship and village life are at the heart of two new swoon-worthy picture books – one about finding joy and bliss in the everyday, and the other, a loving, biographical ode to ... Read More »

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

From the Heart of Africa: A Book of Wisdom

By Collected by Eric Walters

Eric Walters may be best known as the author of dozens of highly regarded young adult novels, but in recent years, he has published a growing number of picture books, many of which have been ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Trailer Park Elegy

By Cornelia Hoogland

Thematically, Joe Denham’s fourth collection, Landfall, is a long question, a wrangle with the ontological realities of living at this time of degenerating species, and an interrogation of the meaning of otherness in an interconnected ... Read More »