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Four Centuries of Language, Power, and Creation in THE KING JAMES BIBLE PLAY

What happens when the people shaping history are just as complicated, opinionated, and fallible as everyone else? The King James Bible Play (Playwrights Canada Press) shifts between two rooms separated ...

We Inteviewed Maya McKibbin, Mega-Talented Illustrator of MAKADE ASIN / BLACK STONE

A frightening dream turns out to be the beginning of a much more significant journey in Makade Asin / Black Stone (Groundwood Books), an English and Anishinaabemowin picture book about facing fear and ...

Read an Excerpt from WHENEVER YOU ARE by Celebrated and Renowned YA Author Martine Leavitt

A crucial mistake is the driving force behind Martine Leavitt's new YA novel, Whenever You Are (Groundwood Books), in which the possibility of a second chance takes a strange and increasingly unsettling ...

Read an Excerpt from A HUNGRY FIRE, the New Modern Epic Novel by Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath

A centuries-old story finds a very different kind of afterlife in A Hungry Fire, where mythology becomes a way of making sense of a body that refuses to provide easy answers.Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath ...

Read an Excerpt from CARRYING WAR, the Affecting New Memoir by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Some experiences never entirely leave us. The new memoir, Carrying War (Dundurn Press) traces how encounters with violence, instability, and fear can continue to shape a life long after the immediate ...

Story Sparks & Surprises with Katie Arthur, Author and Illustrator of BACKPACK

A beloved bag can carry a lot more than lunch and library books. In the new picturebook, Backpack (Owlkids Books), a familiar everyday object becomes a companion through school days, family trips, new ...

Andrea 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, ...

Kevin Jagernauth on Reimagining Noir in THE LONGEST DEATH

A small-town bank job is just the beginning of the story in The Longest Death (House of Anansi Press), a new work of noir full with longing, ambition, and the dangerous hope that one perfect score can ...

Dustin 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 ...

Shahrzad 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, ...