Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu
Beaulieu asks, why are we writing?
nonfiction
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.
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.
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.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #57
Featuring David Martin, Mallory Tater, Kasia Van Schaik, and Barbara Emodi
A Love Affair With the Unknown by Gillian Deacon
Gillian brings forth the notion that we, as humans, try to seek control and predictability because it makes us feel comfortable. She explains that while we all feel uneasy with life’s uncertainties, we often fail to recognize that most others feel the same way.
Looking for Anne of Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery and Her Timeless Heroine by Irene Gammel
Gammel traces her way through Montgomery’s life, journals, and early works to determine the leads for how Anne of Green Gables was born, and how Montgomery related to Anne throughout her life.
Why I Wrote this Book: Issue #55
Featuring Joanne Culley, Dena Jackson, Shelagh Meagher, and Dr. Jacques A. Frigault
Something to Hold Onto by Kate Robson
Something to Hold Onto: Simple Metaphors, Images, and Practical Tools to Transform Your Life is a personal and relatable look at life, struggles and the grief we all endure to come out on top.
The Miramichi Reader’s Best Nonfiction of 2025
Here are our best nonfiction titles of the year, chosen by our contributors!
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.
I Have a Love Story by Natalie MacMaster
I Have a Love Story is a nice summation of MacMaster’s incredible career.
Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game by Karissa Donkin
This is going to be a key text in the history of hockey.
Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec
There is so much to learn here, so many starting points for dialogue, so many opportunities to clear space and grow.
