All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H.
In pondering what to write about All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H., I kept coming back to the idea of joy.
Alison Manley
Oil People by David Huebert
Part generational saga, part eco-gothic fable, Oil People is a luminous debut novel about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder. – McClelland & stewart
Hair for Men by Michelle Winters
A dark, comic, strangely endearing novel, Hair for Men by Michelle Winters is a bizarrely endearing novel, despite its heavy storyline.
Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
As Tomoko reflects on her life from middle-age, one year stands out in shining glory, a year she thoroughly loved, despite the reasons for its beginning and tragedy at the end: the year she was twelve, in 1972.
Little Fortified Stories by Barbara Black
Can you tell a story in a few lines? Yes, it’s possible — but can you make a book’s worth of them? This is what Barbara Black is trying to do in her collection, Little Fortified Stories.
August’s “Mystery Date with a Book” Giveaway!
What is the TMR “Win a Mystery Date With a Book” giveaway? How can one one join? First of all, TMR, in collaboration with some of Canada’s finest publishers, is giving away one current fiction title per month in 2024.
The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript by L.M. Montgomery, edited and annotated by Carolyn Strom Collins
As a self-appointed L.M. Montgomery scholar (one semester of Canadian Literature in my undergrad, but someone who’s read nearly all of her works and has many opinions on them, so not really a scholar so much as an educated fan), I was delighted to see that there was another annotated manuscript of one of Montgomery’s works, again ably put together and annotated by Carolyn Strom Collins, who released an annotated version of Anne of Green Gables in 2019.
July’s “Mystery Date With a Book” Giveaway!
What is the TMR “Win a Mystery Date With a Book” giveaway? How can one one join? First of all, TMR, in collaboration with some of Canada’s finest publishers, is giving away one current fiction title per month in 2024. We have 12 titles from three different publishers, so there will be variety in the available titles.
The Caravaggio Syndrome by Alessandro Giardino, translated by Joyce Myerson and Alessandro Giardino
A weird mix between the campus novel, a mediation on motherhood and academia, and a strange time travel-esque adventure, The Caravaggio Syndrome by Alessandro Giardino, translated by Giardino himself and colleague Joyce Myerson, is an odd, somewhat unruly beast.
Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy” by D.W. Livingstone
What is really fascinating about class in North America is the way we like to act like we don’t have any — or if we do, we all trend to the middle.
What to Read for Indigenous History Month!
Here are some recommendations from our editors to round out Indigenous History Month! These titles are written by, and about, Indigenous folks here on Turtle Island, but we encourage you to read Indigenous beyond so-called Canada as well!
Autokrator by Emily A. Weedon
While unfortunately we already know what it looks like when those who aren’t men are denied rights, and what it looks like when hard-won rights are being eroded, Autokrator takes the chilling thought experiment in a more extreme direction: what if women had no rights at all?
The Lantern and the Night Moths, selected and translated by Yilin Wang
The Lantern and the Night Moths is a collection of the work of five Chinese poets, translated by Wang, and accompanied by her notes in response to their writing, as well as the challenges of translating their poems to English and the displacement of being a diaspora poet-translator.
Donald Andrus: The Shape of Desire by Ihor Holubizky, Pan Wendt & Roslyn Rosenfeld
four essays examining the artist Donald Andrus’ work throughout his career, spanning his different creative periods, his inspirations and larger scale projects, and his meditations on his own career and life.
Secret Sex, edited by Russell Smith
What would you write about sex if no one knew who you were? That’s the premise of the anthology Secret Sex, edited by Russell Smith, a set of anonymous short stories about sex, ranging from pure erotica to more literary reflections on sex and its role in life.
