Noor Naga’s debut book of poetry is an intimately written interrogation of female desire and spiritual belief played out in the context of an extramarital affair. Naga dwells in the alternating solace and crisis presented by ... Read More »
In The Gospel of Breaking, poet and spoken-word artist Jillian Christmas invites readers into a world of sacred identities. Combining delicate imagery and rhythmic verse, these poems blend the personal with the political to yield truth. ... Read More »
Liliane Leila Juma was given the name Lela by her father but wrote Maison Rouge – her harrowing story of escaping war in the Democratic Republic of Congo – under her middle name Liliane, which had officially become ... Read More »
March 16, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Wendy McLeod MacKnight’s latest middle-grade novel takes readers to an alternate version of Saint John, New Brunswick, where one per cent of the population are Copycats – beings that can magically transform into whatever human ... Read More »
March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books
Perhaps more than any other genre, the western seems a relic of the past, to the point where a new literary example – say, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers – is almost automatically viewed as ... Read More »
March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Perhaps more than any other genre, the western seems a relic of the past, to the point where a new literary example – say, Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers – is almost automatically viewed as ... Read More »
March 12, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Vancouver-raised, Brooklyn-based author-illustrator Selina Alko first heard Joni Mitchell’s music when she was nine years old attending summer camp in B.C. It made an enduring impression. In her author’s note for Joni: The Lyrical Life ... Read More »
March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
“Insight” is a word that gets thrown around a lot in psychiatric circles: a patient who has it is someone who understands that they are ill, whereas lack of insight is considered to be a ... Read More »
March 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Canisia Lubrin’s second full-length collection is an ambitious project, combining a lyric attention to the representation of the self with an epic scope and focus on the fate of a community, in this case on ... Read More »
Hula Hoops, Cabbage Patch Kids, and pet rocks are often dismissed as nothing more than silly, fleeting frivolities. But in the new non-fiction book Trending: How and Why Stuff Gets Popular, Norma Fleck Award–winning author ... Read More »
March 5, 2020 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
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