DancesNicole CuffyOne World, 2023 Review by Jasmine Morris Nicole Cuffy’s debut novel is a story brimming with vivid prose that weaves together threads of artistic ambition, black womanhood, and a complex internal journey. Cuffy charts how an uncomplicated dream...
Photo credit: Rob SkujaInterview by Kate Finegan Paola Ferrante is a powerful Toronto-based writer whose work consistently unsettles and inspires me. We first connected through Twitter and then became climbing partners. Grappling with difficult routes turned out to be...
Slows: TwiceT. LiemCouch House Books, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh T. Liem’s second poetry collection Slows: Twice asks us to inhabit a world of doubles where everything must be approached slowly, with extraordinary care, lest it shimmer into a...
Photo credit: Jackson HagnerInterview by Franz Seachel Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, which was chosen by Emma Watson for her online...
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the ForestAmanda LewisGreystone, 2023 Review by Kim Trainor We are surrounded by some of the most beautiful and ancient trees on the planet, yet many of us on the west...
The Corrected Version Rosanna Young Oh Diode Editions, 2023 Review by Joanna Acevedo The speaker in Rosanna Young Oh’s The Corrected Version has a complicated relationship with work. As she details the day-to-day experiences of working in her father’s grocery store,...
Two striking pieces of art hang side by side in a small counselling centre in North End Winnipeg. People can’t stop looking at them, asking about the artists, wanting to know the stories behind these bright paintings. The pieces...
Photo credit: Tam Lan TruongInterview by Matthew Rettino Mirabel (whose real name is Avleen K. Mokha) is a 24-year-old award-winning poet originally from Mumbai, India, currently studying speech-language pathology at McGill University. I came to know her well during...
Photo credit: Emily Cooper Photography Review by Victoria McIntyre Is the internet a cult? Are online communities good for us? Is misinformation harmless or dangerous? Is the future of reality virtual? How is technology changing the way we think?...