The David Pelly interview
David Pelly is the author of The Ancestors Are Happy, published by Crossfield Publishing. Here, the author talks about it and his other accomplishments.
Canadian North
The Odette Barr Interview
Odette Barr is a writer, an artist, a naturalist and an educator. Odette’s most recent release, Teaching at the Top of the World (Pottersfield Press, June 2020), is a personal account of teaching and living in remote Inuit communities in the eastern Arctic, centering mostly on Grise Fiord—Canada’s most northern permanently inhabited community, nestled on the south shore of Ellesmere Island.
Northern Survival by Diane McGyver
Northern Survival by Nova Scotia author, Diane McGyver, is an action-packed story of adventure as a result of a plane crash where there are only two survivors in the Canadian wilderness.
One of the main characters, Olive Tweed is on … Continue reading
The Court of Better Fiction: Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty by Debra Komar
The Court of Better Fiction is a concise, scathing, and at the same time, sympathetic account of a travesty of justice committed against the Indigenous peoples living above the Arctic Circle.
The Wintermen & The Wintermen II: Into the Deep Dark by Brit Griffin
Summertime is a good time to read about a country in permanent winter, right? Or would the story go better if one were warm and dry inside during a blizzard? It likely wouldn’t matter for The Wintermen books penned by … Continue reading
Nirliit by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel
On the back cover of Nirliit (2018, Véhicule Press) there is a quote by Dorothée Berryman of La Presse that perfectly sums up how I felt about reading this small, but transcendent novel: “I’m about to reread this book because … Continue reading