Interviews

Naniki

Naniki

Oonya Kempadoo's novel is a love letter to the Caribbean and its light-flecked waters.

By Val Rwigema

Like Every Form of Love

Like Every Form of Love

Padma Viswanathan's unclassifiable memoir of friendship and writing is both intimate and universal.

By Malcolm Fraser

Catinat Boulevard

Catinat Boulevard

Caroline Vu’s most ambitious book yet takes a bold approach to her themes of race and cultural identity.

By Olivia Shan

G

G

Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi's poetic collaboration is playful and deeply felt.

By Emily Mernin

Do You Remember Being Born?

Do You Remember Being Born?

Sean Michaels' new novel is about collaboration and exchange – big tech with the arts, author with reader.

By Emily Mernin

Bottom Rail on Top

Bottom Rail on Top

DM Bradford's collection is a cat’s cradle of echoes from pre–Civil War America.

By Faith Paré

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

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

The Rage Letters

The Rage Letters

Valérie Bah's intertwined stories tell the tales of young queer characters from Montreal’s Black diasporas.

By Léa Murat-Ingles

I Felt the End Before It Came

I Felt the End Before It Came

Daniel Allen Cox’s memoir is a captivating, richly layered text that dismantles any reductive ideas readers may hold.

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Out to Defend Ourselves

Out to Defend Ourselves

This memoir of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang has a bold thesis about racism and policing in Quebec society.

By Taylor C. Noakes

Tracey Lindeman

Tracey Lindeman

Tracey Lindeman's exploration of endometriosis is as much an investigative report as a medical memoir.

By Eve Thomas