Padma Viswanathan's unclassifiable memoir of friendship and writing is both intimate and universal.
By Malcolm Fraser
Non-Fiction
Louisa Blair's book is a whimsical and entertaining collection of vignettes about Canada's first naturalists.
By Alexander Hackett
Johanne Durocher provides a starting point by fulfilling her daughter’s wish that she tell her story through a book.
By Dana Bath
Judith Adamson’s latest memoir, Ghost Stories, is an exploration of biography as a form of storytelling.
By Aishwarya Singh
In his book, Paul Huebener proposes a critical analysis of sleep as a human activity and as a symbol in Canadian culture.
By Karolina Roman
Hellner-Mestelman's debut is a travel guide for explorers with no known destination. Put another way, this is a book of questions.
By Meaghan Thurston
Eleven of the smartest minds define, demystify, and dismantle the imagined histories of the centuries preceding Canadian federation.
By Jack McClelland
Québécois writers Jean-Lou David and Gabrielle Izaguirré-Falardeau weave a tapestry of longing and rejection, nostalgia and despair.
By Emma Dollery
Grescoe shuttles the reader between the foodways of antiquity and the front lines of sustainable agriculture.
By Adam Hill
A deeply researched, thought-provoking account of the bureaucratic, social, and ethical mess of cannabis legalization.
By JB Staniforth
Montreal-based poet Gail Scott's experimental prose memoir archives the ordinary in the midst of upheaval.
By Aishwarya Singh
Stephen Humphrey's book attempts to untangle the messy, ancient, multispecies relationships at the heart of plant life.
By Sara Spike