Priscilla Jolly

Layaway Child

Layaway Child

Sutherland's stories are an offering to the members of her community who supported her throughout her life.

By Léa Murat-Ingles

What We Choose to Forget

What We Choose to Forget

The immensely readable book is for anyone trying to understand Quebec a little better.

By Toula Drimonis

Eating the Urban Wild

Eating the Urban Wild

The work strives to rebuild a psychological bridge between the urban dweller and their sources of sustenance.

By Gina Leola Woolsey

On Occasion: Poems for the People

On Occasion: Poems for the People

Sina Queyras’ anthology On Occasion: Poems for the People offers a wonderfully diverse array of poetic expression.

By Brooke Lee

Opioids & Organs

Opioids & Organs

The author shows a deep-rooted love and affinity for Montreal: its architecture, its history, its outcasts and iconoclasts.

By Ian McGillis

And Then Again Begin

And Then Again Begin

Thomas explores his characters’ motivations with extraordinary compassion.

By Elisabeth Gill

The Guilt Trippers

The Guilt Trippers

The Guilt Trippers is at its best in its vivid descriptions of the city’s neighbourhoods.

By Alexander Hackett

Leila & Khaled

Leila & Khaled

Matuk’s depiction of Palestine is unlike the one we have come to picture in the wake of the war in Gaza.

By Krystale Tremblay-Moll

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

With seven stories and a novella, the book nicely balances cohesiveness and variety.

By Elise Moser

The Longest Death

The Longest Death

The novel’s defining trait is its Technicolor catalogue of hard-boiled slang, an ambitious feat in and of itself.

By Evie Faber

Wavering Futures

Wavering Futures

These climactic interventions ferry queer desire into the collective imagination.

By Danielle Douez

Charity & Sylvia

Charity & Sylvia

The artistry of Walden’s panels is consistently strong throughout, and their richness in period detail draws the reader in.

By Heather Leighton