NonfictionTag
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August 10, 2026Andrea Coke Reflects on Family, Culture, and Belonging in I AM CARIBBEAN
Author and Speech-Language Pathologist Andrea Coke knows that identity is rarely a simple story. In her memoir I Am Caribbean (Saunders Book Company/Beech Street Books) she reflects on family, culture, ...
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August 02, 2026Simon Casaubon on Writing I AM QUEER to Help Young People Feel Seen
Personal stories can open the door to much larger conversations. In I Am Queer, (Beech Street Books/Saunders Book Company) author Simon Casaubon shares his own experiences while introducing young readers ...
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July 30, 2026Dustin Galer Investigates Responsibility, Disability, and the Human Cost of Systemic Failure in BLAME
The death of one man becomes the starting point of a much larger investigation in Blame: Death, Disability, and the Search for Justice for Guy Mitchell (ECW Press), a work of narrative nonfiction that ...
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July 28, 2026Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton on Building CHILDREN OF FIRE from Profound Voices of Resistance
Our featured non-fiction title today, Children of Fire: Kurdish Female Fighters and the Struggle for Woman, Life, Freedom (Book*hug Press), brings together theatre, memoir, interviews, poetry, photography, ...
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July 13, 2026Read an Excerpt from TAKE THIS FOR THE PAIN, the Fascinating New Essay Collection by Alex Boyd
Art has a way of turning up in unexpected places, and Take this for the Pain (Palimpsest Press) follows those moments wherever they lead. Drawing on twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and criticism, ...
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April 30, 2026Maggie Helwig wins 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named Maggie Helwig the winner of the 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book Encampment. The prize, presented at the annual Politics and the ...
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April 29, 2026Read an Excerpt from Some Fascinating New Nonfiction in READING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER
Personal archive and literary study dovetail in Reading with My Grandmother (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), a new nonfiction title from author and academic Lindsay Diehl that shifts gears deftly ...
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March 31, 2026Author and Journalist Moira Welsh Explores THE ASTONISHING LIVES OF OLDER WOMEN
Growing older brings new freedoms, but also new pressures, especially when financial security is uncertain. The Astonishing Lives of Older Women (ECW Press) looks closely at what many women face later ...
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March 19, 2026Read an Excerpt from MOBILIZING DATA FOR JUSTICE: A GUIDE TO ACTIVISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Data has become a key site of power, and a growing number of activists are finding ways to use it in the fight for accountability and change. The timely new nonfiction title, Mobilizing Data for Justice (Between ...
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February 20, 2026Ray Robertson Defends the Act of Independent Thinking in THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG
In an era that prizes certainty and punishes dissent, disagreement has begun to feel like a moral failure. Prolific author Ray Robertson's new nonfiction title, The Right to Be Wrong (Cormorant Books), ...
