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There Is No Blue
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023
Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, her father's life, and her sister’s suicide is an exploration of how the body, the ...
The Breaks
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
SEMINARY CO-OP'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender ...
The Seed
Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn't support women struggling to have children. In pop culture as much as in policy advocacy, the feminist movement has historically left ...
Hard To Do
From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.
Whatever the underlying motives – be they love, financial security, or mere masochism – the ...
Men of Action
After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness, and Akler's struggles with writing and his ...