On the surface, Nalo Hopkinson's YA novel is about the chaos which ensues after a volcano emerges dramatically in Lake Ontario. Simon & Schuster, 2012 It also, however, takes on the chaotic elements of the reader's society: the sexism, ableism, homophobia and racism that characterizes the everyday world
"Reality is for people who can't handle fiction -- and that is mostly everybody." Elliot Johnson has been writing screenplays in LA, but he's been having trouble selling his fictions. House of Anansi, 2011 That's Elliot Johnson. Or Elliot Johnston, or Elliot Jonson: it depends which document you're
When Gloria Steinem said that there "is no one I respect more in the trenches---or on the page", she was speaking of Michele Landsberg. Between 1978 and 2005, she wrote more than 3,000 columns for "The Toronto Star", fired by the injustices that she observed around her. Some of these
Suzanne Robertson's Paramita, Little Black has been nominated for the 2012 Toronto Book Award. And lucky for me, because I would not have read this slim volume of verse had it not been. Lucky for me, because it's another reminder that poetry doesn't have to be this far-away thing that
Lauren Davis' novel, Our Daily Bread, opens with an excerpt from a sermon, delivered in Gideon in 1794, which directs the righteous in attendance to cast out the wicked. Wordcraft of Oregon (US); HarperCollins (CAN) Send them to the mountains, "the wild places of their wickedness", the reverend
