Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2017)

2019-05-11T19:12:24-04:00

Nominated for the Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction in Canada, Tanya Talaga's book explores the situation which led to the deaths of seven Indigenous high school students in the Thunder Bay area, five of them in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior. The sense of northern community which might be

Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2017)2019-05-11T19:12:24-04:00

Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Spiral (2017)

2017-11-09T08:13:20-05:00

Whether or not it's 50%, there is a part of Michael Redhill who is Inger Ash Wolfe; he has published four mysteries using this pseudonym. And, so, there is certainly some Michael Redhill, in Hazel Micallef, too. Hazel being the heroine of that series. But she's a character, you

Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Spiral (2017)2017-11-09T08:13:20-05:00

Nonfiction November Week Two: Pairing

2017-11-08T10:16:06-05:00

This week, we are invited to pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. "It can be a 'If you loved this book, read this!' or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real

Nonfiction November Week Two: Pairing2017-11-08T10:16:06-05:00

Mavis Gallant’s “From Gamut to Yalta” (1980)

2017-11-10T17:11:11-05:00

So short. Four pages. And, yet, a man considering his entire life and the geo-political map of his day. Its shifting (and not-so shifting) borders are intertwined with his ideas about his marriage. This seems to draw the noose of relationship between the personal and the political uncomfortably - even

Mavis Gallant’s “From Gamut to Yalta” (1980)2017-11-10T17:11:11-05:00

David Chariandy’s Brother (2017)

2018-08-14T15:23:22-04:00

Though set further north of the bluffs, David Chariandy's follow-up to his debut Soucouyant is every bit as family-soaked, its losses and sorrows cast against a remarkable and enduring landscape. In Brother, Michael introduces readers to the Rouge Valley, to his mother and to the memory of his brother

David Chariandy’s Brother (2017)2018-08-14T15:23:22-04:00
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