News & Extras
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki)
Jan 16, 2020
In her introduction to Vera Manuel’s collection Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Plays, Emalene A. Manuel remembers
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Yellow Crane By Susan Gillis
Jan 6, 2020
As I write this review from Halifax, a yellow crane lays crumpled at one of the city’s busiest intersections.
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Ordinary Strangers by Bill Stenson
Dec 19, 2019
‘Ordinary’ and ‘strangers’ are two words that seem contradictory. Yet they fit in this fine book by Bill Stenson, author of Svoboda and Hanne and Her Brothers among others.
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The Old Songs By Madeline Coopsammy
Dec 9, 2019
Coopsammy’s novel, set in Trinidad in the 1950’s, features Tessa Joseph who is eight years old when the story begins and nineteen when it ends with her leaving the island, having won a scholarship to attend university in Delhi.
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Biblioasis’s 2019 “A Ghost Story for Christmas” Collection
Nov 28, 2019
Biblioasis, along with famous Canadian cartoonist Seth, have once again released three Victorian ghost stories just in time for the holiday season, and they’re fantastic.
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What Fox Knew by Mary Barnes
Nov 18, 2019
Reading Mary Barnes’ poetry collection, What Fox Knew, is a fascinating journey.
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