nonfiction
REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence by Jaime Black-Morsette
The REDress project documents the comprehensive use of art installation to bear witness to the rippling pain of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people.
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #45
Featuring Ben Ladouceur, Linda Trinh, Luke Francis Beirne, and Kevin Craig
Grandfather of the Treaties: Finding Our Future Through the Wampum Covenant by Daniel Coleman
Those relationships are described in two treaties, represented in wampum belts and oral stories: the Two Row Wampum and the Covenant Chain. Those treaties, and much else, are the subject of this important, even necessary book.
Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah Abdelmoumen, translated by Catherine Khordoc
This expansive, evocative, and insightful book is part memoir, part imaginative reconstruction of history.
Women Who Woke Up the Law by Karin Wells
Women Who Woke Up the Law by Karin Wells provides an important historical overview of ten legal cases that advanced women’s rights in Canada.
On Book Banning by Ira Wells
Canada’s annual Freedom to Read Week takes place during the last week of February. With this year marking the 40th anniversary of this important observance, it seems most appropriate that this book, part of Biblioasis’ “Field Notes” series, should be published midway through the week when we pay closer attention to the banning of books.
Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #41
Featuring Saad T Farooqi, Shawna Lemay, Jamie Kitts, and sophie anne edwards
Throwback: The Imperilled Ocean by Laura Trethewey
Laura Trethewey’s The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea is the perfect blend of entertainment and education.
Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The personas writers invent (often subconsciously) for their non-fiction usually attempt or pretend to show more or less of the private self. In Because Somebody Asked Me To, bemedaled and oft-rewarded Guy Vanderhaeghe favours a straight speaking tone, whether reviewing Richard Ford or talking to historians.
Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Bosewell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza, with an introduction by Christina Sharpe
Hosted at York University, the free, public events gather writers, artists, and thinkers from various disciplines and geographies to discuss the most pressing issues of our time. The insights shared at the live and streamed events are later transcribed and expanded in artful books published by Alchemy, a Knopf Canada publishing program, in collaboration with York University.
Throwback: The Atlantic Salmon Treasury: Vol II
“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon Federation Talented novelists, editors and conservationists Monte Burk and Charles Gaines have compiled the best writing in the last half-century imploring the humble reader to behold a “curated selection of the most …
War among the Clouds: New Brunswick Airmen in the Great War by J. Brent Wilson
Aviation was still in its infancy at the outbreak of the First World War. The Wright brothers had made their first successful flight only a decade earlier in 1903, and few people had ever seen, let alone flown in, an airplane. But that did not stop hundreds of New Brunswick men from enlisting with the British air services during the war.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #39
Featuring Caroline Topperman, Carolyne Vandermeer, Rajinderpal S Pal, and Karen Green
TMR’s Best Books of 2024: Nonfiction
It’s that time of the year! I asked our whole team what their favourite books of the year were and received back more than 50 titles!!! Here are some of the standouts, and what our excellent reviewers had to say about them:
