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Joanne Robertson and Shirley (Fletcher) Horn Tell the Crucial Story of a Young Girl's Resilience and Survival

At five years old, Shirley is taken from her family and sent to a residential school, a strange place that she does not understand. The long walk up the school’s stone steps marks the beginning of a ...

Read an Excerpt from REBELLIOUS BODIES AND RADICAL ACTS, Edited by Alex Bulmer & Debbie Patterson

Performance takes on new urgency and possibility in Rebellious Bodies and Radical Acts (Coach House Books), an anthology that centres disabled and Deaf artists working at the forefront of contemporary ...

Read an Excerpt from SYNCOPATION, the Extraordinary New Novel-in-Verse from Whitney French

In the wildly creative novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn), the future feels both strange and close at hand. After a devastating Memory War, the world has split into unfamiliar cultures and ...

Read an Excerpt from ARAB TECHNO FOR THE PEOPLE, a Fascinating Work of Cultural Nonfiction by Jillian Fulton-Melanson

In clubs, basements, and late-night dance floors across Toronto and Montreal, electronic music becomes more than sound. Throughout the pages of Arab Techno for the People: Sonic Responses to Orientalism ...

Read an Excerpt from TOGETHER BY THE SEA by Marie-Claire Blais (Translated by Katia Grubisic)

The tenth and final instalment of the Soifs cycle comes to its close in Together by the Sea (House of Anansi Press), a novel that brings a long-running literary vision to a powerful close.Written by Marie-Claire ...

Read an Excerpt from NIGHT TERMINUS, the Debut Novel From Ellis Scott

Acclaimed short story writer Ellis Scott has arrived with a haunting debut novel that traces queer survival, memory, and love across borders and decades in the shadow of the AIDS crisis.Night Terminus (Dundurn ...

Hollary Ghadery's New Novel Explores How We Find and Keep Connections When Everything is Unravelling

We're very excited to share another special preview interview for one of our featured Winter/Spring 2026 titles. Today we're sharing an enlightening Long Story Novelist Interview with Hollay Ghadery, ...

A Young Girl Faces Her Fears to Reconnect with Sound in WHEN BRYN'S EAR WENT QUIET

Open Book will be publishing a few special previews of upcoming titles this season, and today we're featuring When Bryn's Ear Went Quiet (Owlkids Books), an evocative new picture book from celebrated ...

Dani Netherclift Tries to Capture the Shape of Absent Bodies in VESSEL

Our featured title today, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies (Assembly Press), is a unique, genre-bending work of memoir, literature, history, and translation by a very exciting author who writes ...

Read an Excerpt from HIDE AND SIKH, the New Memoir from Sunny Dhillon

After leaving his job at The Globe and Mail in 2018, Sunny Dhillon published a blog post explaining his decision. It struck a nerve, circulating widely and inspiring conversation about race, belonging, ...