It’s Indigenous Peoples Day, and I have a variety of reading selections to share over the next few days: something for every reading mood. Pawaminikititicikiw’s (Wilfred Buck’) Kitcikisik (Great Sky) published in 2021, is a great introduction to Indigenous cosmology by a First Nations author, writing from within the
It occurred to me to keep The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu as a novella for November. But when I was rushing to leave the house one afternoon, and returned because I’d forgotten my wallet, I slipped TEoKN into my bag on a whim. So, naturally that’s what I read
Recently I’ve had such a great experience with the 2024 Best volumes that Biblioasis publishes annually featuring Canadian writers, that a casual chat between Rebecca and me, about how Lauren Groff had edited the 2023 O.Henry Prize Winners’ volume in 2023, inspired me to track down a copy via
Bucak, Irving, Lahiri, Ndiaye, and Towles Appealing to a variety of reading tastes: Trendy Translations, Honed and Haunting Trying something a little different with the Quarterly format. For most of the collections, I’ll summarise them in five sentences, followed by a quotation. Except for
Growing up, reading was a solitary activity. Even when I was lucky enough to live near someone else who had a similar connection to books and stories, we never did that together: we played. We might swap books, under the best of circumstances, but we never had our own
