The greatest strength of this book is Tremblay’s evocative portrayal of art addiction.
By Karolina Roman
Priscilla Jolly
The novel builds a vivid and evocative picture of Asha’s childhood in a house with green verandahs and mango trees.
By Priscilla Jolly
This fine balance between rage that burns, and rage that burns out, is the balance Clémence must learn to strike.
By Alexandra Sweny
Village Dreams has a sharp focus on place, and especially the fringes.
By Ashton Diduck
Beyond Numb’s four cornerstones of despair, hope does seep through the cracks.
By Jack McClelland
Favreau’s memoir is straightforward and vulnerable in its rendition of reality. Willms shares stories of surviving a childhood spent in rural northern Ontario.
By India Das-Brown
Montreal-based photographers share observations and memories in the city in two recently released photobooks.
By Oriana Confente
McKenzie unmasks the hidden culture of the sport. His book is an incredibly sharp, sophisticated work.
By Esinam Beckley
These reflections speak to the strange frictions we might see between people in our lives or in wider society.
By Becks Simpson
Surkan’s poems are varied, precise, and overlapping, formally agile while remaining emotionally grounded.
By Paisley Conrad
Schönmaier writes with remarkable clarity and restraint about memory, landscape, music, and duration.
By Paisley Conrad
Kellough suggests that poetic work itself might function as disruption.
By Paisley Conrad