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Toward the North: Stories by Chinese Canadian Writers, edited by Hua Laura Wu, Xueqing Xu, and Corinne Bieman Davies

February 10, 2024July 30, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Toward the North: Stories by Chinese Canadian Writers is a thoughtfully coordinated anthology by editors Hua Laura Wu, Xueqing Xu, and Corinne Bieman Davies. Each story feels like it is presented in exactly the right place and at exactly the right moment in relation to the other stories it shares a cover with. The over-arching theme of the entire collection is Chinese transnational and cross-cultural life experience, and …

Some Good: Sweet Treats by Jessica Mitton

May 28, 2024July 16, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Jessica Mitton is the author of Some Good: Nutritious Newfoundland Dishes, which was a finalist for the 2019 Taste Canada Award. Remarkably, every recipe was gluten-free, dairy-free, and made without refined sugars. Now, Breakwater Books is set to release her follow-up cookbook, Some Good: Sweet Treats, in August 2020. These dessert recipes are gluten and …

2020 Shortlist: Best Non-Fiction!

May 28, 2024July 4, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Everyone at This Party by Tanja Bartel

April 7, 2021June 18, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

British Columbia author Tanja Bartel’s debut collection, Everyone at This Party, delves into a person’s relationship to their environment, their peers, and themselves in a seemingly cynical and yet humorous, honest, and lighthearted way. Many poems centre around location: this party, a sawmill town, a subdivision, and more. Bartel describes what is outside of us …

How to have a fantastic Gamepad with minimal spending.

May 28, 2024May 25, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

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10 important facts that you should know about sports.

May 28, 2024May 25, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

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In the Beggarly Style of Imitation by Jean Marc Ah-Sen

May 24, 2024May 20, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Jean Marc Ah-Sen, award-winning author of Grand Menteur — a novel about Mauritian street gangs—, has returned with something new: a collection of short pieces titled In the Beggarly Style of Imitation. Now a novelist and short story writer, Ah-Sen has proved what a multi-faced creator he is. He is currently working on another novel “just to make sure the first one wasn’t a fluke,” he says (Ah-Sen, “The Jean Marc Ah-Sen Interview”). In the …

Two Poems From Chad Norman

May 28, 2024May 19, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

The Jean Marc Ah-Sen Interview

August 24, 2024April 28, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

[dropcap]Jean [/dropcap]Marc Ah-Sen is the Toronto-based author of Grand Menteur, which The Globe and Mail selected as a top 100 Best Book in 2015. The National Post has hailed his work as “an inventive escape from the conventional.” His second book, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation*, was just published by Nightwood Editions. He lives …

Margin of Interest: Essays on English Language Poetry of the Maritimes by Shane Neilson

May 28, 2024March 22, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

The essays in Margin of Interest showcase the rich history of poetry in the Canadian Maritimes, recognizing the drawbacks of regional frameworks while finding power and beauty in the literary traditions of writers who exist on the margins of Canadian poetry and culture.

Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough

May 28, 2024March 21, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age.

To See The Stars by Jan Andrews (Guest Post by Lana Shupe)

May 28, 2024March 8, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Reviewing this book To See the Stars by Jan Andrews on International Women’s Day seems particularly poignant given the story between the covers. This story encompasses the fight for the rights of women garment workers after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that killed 123 women who were trapped there. Women exercising their right to strike even before they were allowed the right to vote.

The Transaction by Guglielmo D’Izzia

May 28, 2024February 7, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Mr. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily’s hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy.

Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwahal

May 28, 2024January 25, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

Anita Kushwaha’s follow-up to her 2018 award-winning novel (and 2020 longlist nominee) Side by Side is Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters (HarperCollins Canada). It is a generational story of — you guessed it — mothers and daughters and the secrets that they keep from each other.

The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham

May 28, 2024January 13, 2020 by Emma Rhodes

In The Forgotten Home Child, Ms. Graham forthrightly tackles the issues surrounding the implementation of the British Home Child program in England and its consequences to the children once they arrived in Canada.