Come One Thing Another by Cory Lavender
What do we stand to lose or gain from our inherited identities? For Cory Lavender, the answer might exist within how he curates domestic musings.
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Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision by Anne Koval
To gaze upon Mary Pratt’s work is to come face-to-face with another world, one that is brighter, more keenly observant, and more knowing, for embedded in the fractal structures of her oft chosen subjects: glass, aluminum, and plastic wrap, are reflections of time and space.
Poems for Burning by Spencer Folkins
As children, we’ve all been told not to play with matches, but Spencer Folkins can’t seem to resist the lure of starting little fires in his debut chapbook.
The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom Ryan
A brilliant novel that ensured I would read anything Tom Ryan decides to write.
Girl Dinner by Jamie Kitts
There’s something just so nice about a new chapbook with a fun cover. Girl Dinner by Jamie Kitts, a collection of poems largely focused on food and the ways it connects to different ways of being and experiences, has a cover illustrated by New Brunswick artist Dawn Mockler.
Boom Road by Shawn Lawlor
Boom Road is the most Miramichi book I’ve ever read, and I say that with deep affection.
The Nowhere Places by Susan LeBlanc
In 1979, in the Hydrostone neighbourhood of Halifax, June’s son Gerald goes missing.
Big Rory Returns to Market Square
In this story that follows the introduction of Big Rory, in Big Rory of Market Square, we follow the tales of this stray Pictou County, Nova Scotia transplant from Scotland after setting sale on the good ship Hector.
I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book Day: Editors’ Picks
Today, September 21, 2024, is the fifth annual I’m Buying a New Brunswick Book Day, coordinated by the Frye Festival.
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.
Death and Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe
Margo and Dick were together for ten years, and she had no idea she would be facing widowhood at the “tender age of sixty-two”.
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.
Throwback: Sweet Ride by Ann Barry
Sweet Ride by Ann Barry is a creative historical non-fiction set in 1943, 4 years into World War II.
Felt by Mark Blagrave
Felt is acclaimed author and playwright Mark Blagrave’s third novel and fourth book, and a deeply moving portrait of the relationship between a mother and son, between a man and the strong women surrounding him.
