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Read an Excerpt from Seth Klein's Groundbreaking Climate Crisis Solution Guidebook, A Good War

As Canada - and the world - stares into a future made unsustainable by the climate crisis, the biggest question is simply: How? How can we solve a problem that feels overwhelmingly unsolvable, all while ...

Read an Excerpt from Farzana Doctor's New Novel, Seven

Sharifa, the main character in author Farzana Doctor's new novel, Seven (Dundurn), is getting more than she bargained for when she decides to dig into her family's history.After landing in India alongside ...

Combat Populism with an Excerpt from Jonathan Manthorpe's Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence

It's been hard to miss the rising tide of populism that has crept into democratic discourse in North American and Europe in the past decade. What to do about it and what it means are trickier challenges, ...

Read an Excerpt from John Bentley Mays' The Occidental Hotel

In the late John Bentley Mays' final book, The Occidental Hotel (Guernica Editions), a grizzled, racist criminal evades capture by holing up in a long-abandoned hotel, once a dazzling building that hosted ...

Read an Excerpt from Kevin Lambert's You Will Love What You Have Killed

In You Will Love What You Have Killed (Biblioasis), the debut novel from Quebec author Kevin Lambert, past wrongs are not forgotten, and life-long debts are paid with blood.In Lambert's fictional rendering ...

Read an Excerpt from Jill Martin Bouteillier's New Memoir From Thistles to Cowpies

Author Jill Martin Bouteillier's new memoir/biography From Thistles to Cowpies (Crossfield Publishing) brings to life the experiences of Canada's earliest immigrants, following them on their sometimes-harrowing ...

Read an Excerpt from Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty

Author Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty (Book*hug), is an exploration of beauty and its role in the human experience: what we love, care for, and value. Part essay, part poetry, ...

Read an Excerpt from Anita Lahey's Touching New Memoir 'The Last Goldfish'

When a teenage Anita Lahey met her best friend Louisa in high school, their connection was immediate and powerful. From that day on, the two girls would spend their formative days navigating the pains ...

Read an Excerpt from Patti M. Hall's Touching Memoir 'Loving Large'

When her son was diagnosed with gigantism after the discovery of a tumour, author Patti M. Hall's life flipped upside down. Career and relationship goals were pushed to the sidelines, with every ounce ...

Poets in Profile: Conyer Clayton on John Berryman, Seeing the Big Picture, and Finding Acceptance

Originally from Kentucky, poet, multi-disciplinary artist, and gymnastics coach Conyer Clayton is a freshly-minted Canadian citizen who now calls Ottawa home. Her debut full-length collection, We Shed ...