The 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award shortlists have been announced, and you can find reviews of many of the shortlisted titles right here on TMR! Our reviewers have such good taste 💁♀️.
A Canadian writer born in Northern Ireland to South African Jewish parents of Lithuanian descent, Gary Barwin is a man of many hats: poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator. His work has won many awards.
I had already committed to review Playground by Richard Powers for The Miramichi Reader when it was announced that Playground was long-listed for the 2024 Booker Prize.
Silken Gazelles is a translated work of literary fiction that demands slow and careful attention while reading to catch all the beauty.
Political poetry is crucial to the Palestinian literary tradition, embodied perhaps most famously by the poet and author Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008), who was displaced as a child during the Nakba. This rich literary tradition also includes Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972), displaced to Lebanon in 1948 and assassinated by the Mossad at the age of 36. Many readers are familiar with Refaat Alareer, the poet and literature professor whose poem “If I Must Die” was circulated widely after his assassination in 2023. His colleague and close friend, Mosab Abu Toha, enters this impressive lineage with his debut collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Author Karen Pinchin has given us a gift. It is her perfectly paced, exquisitely written work of creative nonfiction.
In a coastal city, a displaced woman, having searched for her missing daughter in vain for weeks, throws herself into the ocean. Another woman, pregnant with her first child, witnesses the suicide. In the first part of the book, a spiral-like structure with the disappearance at its center documents the weeks before and after the …
Prize-winning author Susan Fletcher’s new novel is an absorbing whodunnit that also looks at—and celebrates—the passions, regrets, secrets and adventures of one woman’s extraordinary and inspiring life.
Dayspring is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.
The Adversary by Michael Crummey is a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.
Denison Avenue: A Novel by Christina Wong, illustrated by Daniel Innes is both an experience and an adventure into reading and visual art, like no other.
This special omnibus edition of Katherena Vermette’s best-selling series features an all-new foreword by Chantal Fiola, a historical timeline, and an essay about Métis being and belonging by Brenda Macdougall.
The stories in Fordmates ricochet headlong between comedy and tragedy, balancing the tedium and gruelling demands of the automotive assembly line with the workers’ gutsy attempts to preserve spirits and some semblance of sanity.
What if wishes you made turned out wrong, and you didn’t even know it? What if one of those bad wishes is about to ruin your life? Well then, you better make an appointment with the Wish Doctor.
This Is How You Start to Disappear shows all the heartbreaking ways we evolve when coping with change or trauma. A TMR Star Review!
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