BOOK REVIEWS

Two Days in Mayaro

Jamaican-Canadian Pamela Mordecai’s collection Two Days in Mayaro is steeped in the centuries-long economic, political, and cultural exchanges between Canada and Jamaica. From individual migration stories, such as that in the linguistically playful “Alvin’s Ilk ... Read More »

September 30, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Too Hot to Tango

By E. E. Salo and Megan Kearney (ill.)

Sparks fly at summer camp when a soccer player volunteers to help a dancer nail an important end-of-summer audition in the sweet and spicy young adult romance graphic novel Too Hot to Tango. Stanford-bound Honey ... Read More »

September 30, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Grotesque

By Elliott Dunstan

Grotesque, the stunning debut novel from Ottawa Valley writer Elliott Dunstan, begins with a brief exploration into the nature of the relationship between monsters and human beings: “Sometimes it seems to me that without the ... Read More »

September 23, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ A Thousand Nights

By Nafiza Azad and Intisar Khanani (eds.)

A Thousand Nights is an anthology of YA stories written by 16 Muslim women who reclaim narratives inspired by The Thousand and One Nights. Within its pages, one refugee meets another and another, and with ... Read More »

September 23, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Republic of Glass

By Catherine Leroux; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Given the accelerating and overlapping crises that currently beset the world – the global ascent of the far right; galloping climate change; wars in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran that threaten to spiral out of control; ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories

By Russell Smith (ed.)

“There are few English words with as many meanings,” writes editor Russell Smith in his introduction to the anthology Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories. Smith quickly outlines the etymological origins of the word, beginning with the ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Rebecca

By Kate Beaton and Sydney Smith (ill.)

There are picture books meant for children, and others that are meant for all ages. Rebecca, written by Kate Beaton (Ducks, King Baby) and illustrated by Sydney Smith (Sidewalk Flowers, I Talk Like a River), ... Read More »

September 16, 2026 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Lantern

By Sanna Wani

Lantern is Sanna Wani’s anticipated follow-up to My Grief, the Sun, the winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry. The collection is defined by five elements – Craft, Love, Ethos, Faith, and Grief – ... Read More »

September 9, 2026 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

★ The Continuation of Summer Dillon

By Sarah Everett

What is a human being? The Enlightenment Age, also known as the Age of Reason, foregrounded humanity’s natural autonomy, in stark contrast to earlier periods where human beings were seen as entirely beholden to religious ... Read More »

September 2, 2026 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Birthing Tree

By Amanda Peters

Invoking deep histories of hardship and inherited family legacies, Amanda Peters’s sophomore novel is at home in the postmodern literary tradition of the East Coast. Less gothic-adjacent than some regional stories, The Birthing Tree elicits ... Read More »

August 26, 2026 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Indigenous Peoples, Reviews

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