Interviews

Needle Work

Needle Work

As such, we are introduced to Canada's rich and complicated history of commercial tattooing.

By Yara El-Soueidi

My Thievery of the People

My Thievery of the People

My Thievery of the People helps us believe 2025 might not be that bad after all.

By Léa Murat-Ingles

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

La Belle-Mère / The Stepmother

This is a feminist project, one which imagines new modalities for intimate cohabitation and kinship.

By Klara du Plessis

When the Pine Needles Fall

When the Pine Needles Fall

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and co-author Sean Carleton revisit the Oka Crisis in their new collaboration.

By Emma Dollery

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

Jacob Wren’s novel grapples with questions of violence, complicity, authority, collectivity, resistance, and doubt.

By H Felix Chau Bradley

The Reeds

The Reeds

Arjun Basu's novel is is a love song to Montreal in all of its gritty complexity and contradictions.

By Ami Sands Brodoff

The War You Don’t Hate

The War You Don’t Hate

Blaise Ndala’s blistering second novel is a searing satire of war and celebrity and their improbable connection.

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Supplication

Supplication

The strength of Abi-Nakhoul's book lies in its emulation of pain as a mood or feeling.

By Emma Dollery

The Wendy Award

The Wendy Award

Walter Scott's fourth instalment in a series that has shone an unsparing light on the contemporary art world.

By Ian McGillis

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