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Paths of Pollen

Paths of Pollen

Stephen Humphrey's book attempts to untangle the messy, ancient, multispecies relationships at the heart of plant life.

By Sara Spike

I’m Hungry!

I’m Hungry!

In Elise Gravel’s new book, a little monster tries in vain to fill their belly void with all manner of inedible items.

By Meaghan Thurston

The Lost Drop

The Lost Drop

Grégoire Laforce's book follows protagonist Flo as she navigates the perpetual water cycle, asking: “Who am I, and where should I go?” 

By Meaghan Thurston

Blacklion

Blacklion

Luke Francis Beirne's novel is a romance and espionage thriller set against the layered geopolitical context of Ireland in the 1970s.

By Sharon Morrisey

Little Fury

Little Fury

Casey Bell's book takes heavy themes and wraps them up in fantastical settings, neatly tangling them together through delicate, beautiful prose.

By Roxane Hudon

The Family Code

The Family Code

Wayne Ng's novel teaches us that family certainly provides us with the fuel for our own growth, although this sometimes means being far from their reach.

By Phoebe Yī Lìng

Essential Work, Disposable Workers

Essential Work, Disposable Workers

Mostafa Henaway’s book unspools around a brutal paradox: how can a person be at once essential and disposable? 

By Emily Raine

Nights Too Short to Dance

Nights Too Short to Dance

Marie-Claire Blais' novel embodies the joy and slipperiness of existence – it reminds us that life is a continuous yet rhythmic flow.

By Emma Dollery

As the Andes Disappeared

As the Andes Disappeared

Caroline Dawson digs up and grieves such disowned fragments of self in her gripping autobiographical novel.

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Valid

Valid

Chris Bergeron's novel mines elements of her own past and present to project trans lives into an unstable future.

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Red Squared Montreal

Red Squared Montreal

Norman Nawrocki's “fictional chronicle” of the seven-month 2012 Quebec student strike is a love letter to a particular political moment.

By JB Staniforth

Naked

Naked

Éloïse Marseille's graphic novel is for girls afraid they’re wildly abnormal.

By Sruti Islam