A Conversation with Rebecca Salazar
Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?
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Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #55
Featuring Joanne Culley, Dena Jackson, Shelagh Meagher, and Dr. Jacques A. Frigault
The Miramichi Reader’s Best Nonfiction of 2025
Here are our best nonfiction titles of the year, chosen by our contributors!
The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction of 2025
It’s the end of 2025 already, and so the “Best of” lists are surfacing! Here are some of TMR’s Best fiction of the year, chosen by our dedicated team of contributors.
A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
There is a mystery to uncover situated in the detailed life on the farm during the late 1800s. Black’s flair for writing superb and timely dialogue keeps the reader planted in this time and space.
Now I Shall Leave You To Your Fate by Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh, and Fawn Parker
A skillful control exists over each piece, so orderly it seems random.
Read Palestine Week 2025
Below, we’ve put together a list of Palestinian books reviewed on TMR. What are you reading this week?
In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer
What I wasn’t expecting about In the Field was just how much I love it. It is a remarkable book: thoughtful, nuanced, beautifully written, and thoroughly researched.
ITTY BITTY REVIEWS: Issue #4
With Reviews of books by Rebecca Salazar, Jake Byrne, and Margo LaPierre.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #54
Featuring Nicholas Ruddock, M.S. Berry, Lucy Black, and Melanie Schnell
As the Earth Dreams | The Terese Mason Pierre interview
Terese Mason Pierre is the editor of As The Earth Dreams (House of Anansi Press), a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Planet Earth by Nicholas Ruddock
Planet Earth is a wide-ranging collection of stories. Clocking in at 184 pages in total, this is small but mighty: there are pieces of flash fiction here, longer stories, ones that break your heart and ones that chill you to the bone.
The Atoner of Alberni by Ed Cepka
The first utterance by Larry, the raucous novel’s restless narrator, indicates just how far things did progress from the book’s early days as a sturdy pioneer saga: “I’m grateful for this cell and its vinyl padded walls and floor that they laughably justify so that I don’t harm myself.”
