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Yams do not Exist by Garry Thomas Morse
While Garry Thomas Morse is already an accomplished poet and fiction writer, he manages to deliver something completely new and fresh in his new novel, Yams do not Exist. From the first page, it’s clear that this book is something different. The very first sentence...
The Swan Suit by Katherine Fawcett
Every short story collection should have one perfect story that the reader returns to over and over. Even if some of the other stories are ho-hum, that one perfect story remains in the mind. Through...
The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball
Jonathan Ball has built an impressive writing career that includes both poetry and fiction. That wild electricity of poetry explodes in his first full-length fiction collection, The Lightning of Possible Storms. The Lightning of Possible Storms is categorized as a...
The Perfect Archive by Paul Lisson
In The Perfect Archive, Hamilton poet, archivist and librarian Paul Lisson stretches the boundaries of poetry and prose to perform an exacting/extracting critique of the archive. Reminiscent of Kafka, radical and irreverent, the archive at the centre of this dark tale...
Best Canadian Essays 2020, Edited by Sarmishta Subramanian
Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic opened a schism that marks what many people now consider a “before and after." The before: concerts, commutes, handshakes, birthday candles. The after: masks, six foot separations, grocery store line-ups, Zoom. March 2021 marks one...
I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin
Answering civil rights advocate James Baldwin’s call to witness, Valerie Mason-John’s I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin, is an uncompromising account of the historic and ongoing trauma of the slave trade, gender disparity, homocentric norms, and our...