Sincere and intimate, sentimental and sanguine, Sivan Slapak’s debut book Here is Still Here, is brought together as a collection of sure-footed short stories. Isabel, the wanderlustful protagonist, embarks on a journey from Montreal to […]
Can contemporary poets maintain a sense of informality and inventiveness while expressing insight into the profound depths of the truth we so desperately yearn for? Can poetry reimagine sensibility while still being able to make […]
A Ramshackle Home is the inaugural work in Mihali’s extensive literary repertoire. Judith Weisz Woodsworth’s translation of Le Pays du fromage (2002) breathes new life into this novel, which has undergone its third transformation, originally […]
Eva Crocker grew up in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) and lives in Tiohti:áke (Montreal). Her debut novel All I Ask was long-listed for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story […]
Monique Polak, a prolific author with 33 books tailored for young readers, holds the prestigious Quebec Writers’ Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and YA Literature three times. Retired after an illustrious 35-year career […]
It is a reassuring thing, picking up the debut book of the latest Canadian novelist and discovering familiar themes with a passionate conviction that illuminates the truth that we cravenly seek in art. Colleen René […]
It’s 1981, one year after the shock of John Lennon’s murder. Disco is dead, punk is making its smashing entrance, and it is the big bang of bands like: The Talking Heads, R.E.M, Television, and […]
The latest novel of Sarah Gilbert, Our Lady of Mile End, is a collection of seventeen interlinked stories that speak to the fabled and romantic neighbourhood of Mile End, Montreal, and Canada. The warm-hearted and […]
The highly anticipated novel by David Connor, titled “Oh God the Sun Goes,” fearlessly defies all conventions for debut books. It possesses a profound absurdity, an emotionally resonating quality, and a distinct sense of originality. […]
Maybe the back of a book can also describe the inside of a person. If you pick up and turn over Mark Abley’s nonfiction book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, you’ll see the publisher’s […]
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