The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Niko Stratis’s The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is a book for this moment when we’re re-evaluating algorithmic curation and rediscovering the human connections in our playlists.
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A Sense of Things Beyond by Renée Belliveau
A Sense of Things Beyond by Renée Belliveau is a compelling and well-researched historical fiction novel set in the wake of World War I.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #59 — All Poetry!
Featuring Jennifer LoveGrove, Misha Solomon, Saraswoti Lamichhane, and Kathryn MacDonald
Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu
Beaulieu asks, why are we writing?
The Translation Chain Project by Logan Kennedy
The Translation Chain Project by Logan Kennedy is a literary experiment that began with a spontaneous question: what happens if a piece of prose is translated repeatedly, with the previous translation used as the source? But what began as a playful idea led Kennedy to consider one the most pressing matters of our time: the rise of artificial intelligence.
Best Canadian Poetry 2026 selected by Mary Dalton
In the best years, there is a lack of uniformity in poetic styles and moods. This is a good year. Most of the names are familiar with a few poets new to me.
There’s Always More to Say by Natalie Southworth
With her debut collection There’s Always More to Say, Natalie Southworth demonstrates that she not only understands the skills necessary to write powerful short stories, she has no shortage of them.
The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse | Interview with Oren Weisfeld
In The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse, basketball journalist Oren Weisfeld looks past the highlights and toward the hard, often uncomfortable work of building a national basketball ecosystem – one shaped by immigration, resistance from governing bodies, U.S. prep schools, grassroots rebels, and decades of tension.
Black Cherokee: An Interview with Antonio Michael Downing
So there was this moment for me where I thought: my God, everything in my life has changed, but the one thing that has held true is the presence of the Crown, and of colonialism.
Gasper’s Cove series by Barbara Emodi, books #4-6
With a cast of quirky Maritime characters, Gasper’s Cove is a fast-paced cozy mystery series set in a fictitious town on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. Each book can be read as a stand-alone and revolves around Valerie Rankin, who runs a Crafter’s Co-op on the second floor of the Rankin General store, a …
Unshaming: A Memoir of Recovery, Relapse, and What Comes After By Jowita Bydlowska
As if arriving fresh from the fever dream of her sensational memoir Drunk Mom Jowita Bydlowska sways toward us with a new tale, a different one, and on the first page she is as drunk as ever, but just as surefooted in her prose.
Wild People Quiet by Tara Gereaux
As epigraphs go, Gereaux’s identifies commonplace racism circa 1869. The novel’s subsequent pair of historical settings, about four and eight decades later, suggest cultural change that could be measured in teaspoons.
We Survived Until We Could Live by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
He describes We Survived Until We Could Live, his latest collection of poetry as an “attempt to portray a glimpse of war’s horrific aftermath on the family.” In his “attempt to converse with the past,” he believes it is with poetry that he “can document the untold stories of suffering, invite readers into this world, and sharpen their empathy for fellow human beings in pain.”
The Beauty of Vultures, poems by Wendy McGrath, photos by Danny Miles
This collection contains 31 poems arranged in three acts. Miles’s compelling photos—mostly black-and-whites with a few exceptions—appear on facing pages.
On boxing with Nadia Ragbar
From the beginning, even with them being conjoined, I didn’t want the conflict to come from discrimination or an overtly ableist world. That never felt like the story to me.
