

In her sophomore poetry collection, Vancouver’s Amber Dawn explores various dissonances in her personal life and career: her poems address Hollywood, academia, the internet, and the poet’s experiences as a queer femme, former sex worker, ... Read More »

“Just be yourself” is the default advice for young people struggling in social situations. But how does that actually work? Kids in four new picture books use different strategies to feel more at ease in ... Read More »
March 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

“Just be yourself” is the default advice for young people struggling in social situations. But how does that actually work? Kids in four new picture books use different strategies to feel more at ease in ... Read More »
March 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

“Just be yourself” is the default advice for young people struggling in social situations. But how does that actually work? Kids in four new picture books use different strategies to feel more at ease in ... Read More »
March 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

“Just be yourself” is the default advice for young people struggling in social situations. But how does that actually work? Kids in four new picture books use different strategies to feel more at ease in a ... Read More »
March 19, 2020 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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