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.
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.
Here are some excellent queer titles for Pride Month, recommended by our editors!
Fraser’s poems are rough around the edge, never shying from the griminess of life.
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.
June is Pride month AND Indigenous History Month. We’ll be spotlighting excellent queer and Indigenous titles all month. First up: some ~double feature~ Indigiqueer books, recommended from our editors!
Myriam and Allison meet and fall in love over and over again in How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix, a series of fictional hypotheticals about their relationship.
Scorch is a fierce call to readers, inviting us to look unflinchingly at what we’ve done to nature, and what remains for us to pick up and explore anew.
May is Jewish Heritage Month! Here are some excellent recommended reads from our editors to take you to the end of the month – and beyond!
We’ve noticed a marked absence of books by Palestinian authors and/or books about Palestine through our regular pitches from publishers. As a result, we’d like to do a direct callout for Palestinian books to review, as well as for our other features such as interviews, excerpts, and “Why I Wrote This Book” features.
In addition to this, we know that the world of literature can exist in an ethereal space of “ideas.” We want to be clear that we, the editors-in-chief at The Miramichi Reader, understand that all writing is inherently political in a world where people’s existences are politicized. So we will be donating 100% of donations through the ko-fi button on our website to GoFundMe’s supporting civilians.
Caroline Dawson opens her autobiographical novel, As the Andes Disappeared, with the declaration: “The first time I decided not to kill myself, I was seven years old.”
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. What better way to mark the occasion than to read books written by Asian Canadian writers. Here are 10 books recommended by the TMR editorial team!
The romance of train travel has never left our minds, even long after it stopped being such a vital part of travel for the average person. Off the Tracks: a Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy is a love letter to these trains, from a North American perspective.
What is the TMR “Win a Blind 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.
A story of scientific discovery, complicated by family, complicated by a codependent relationship with decades of history – that is Sadie X, by Clara Dupuis-Morency, and translated from the original French by Aimee Wall.
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