Indigenous Toronto

Edited by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Rebeka Tabobondung, and Brian Wright-McLeod
Categories: Literary Collections

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD

Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present

Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history ...

I Could See Everything

By Margaux Williamson
Categories: Art

'Like all my favourite art, these paintings bring out that covetous feeling – I want to wear them, dance to them, show them off as an example of how life feels to me: dirty, dumb, terrifying, spiritual ...

Any Other Way

Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, and Rahim Thawer
Categories: Social Science

Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals ...

Bread and Milk

By Karolina Ramqvist
Translated by Saskia Vogel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

From translator Saskia Vogel and one of Sweden's most loved authors, an essayistic memoir about women and food

Bread and Milk traces a life through food, from carefully restricted low-fat margarine to ...

Living Things

By Munir Hachemi
Translated by Julia Sanches
Categories: Fiction

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD

This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.

Munir, ...

Good Want

By Domenica Martinello
Categories: Poetry

What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world?

Good Want entertains the notion that perhaps ...

Some Lines of Poetry

Edited by Derek Beaulieu & Gregory Betts
By bp Nichol
Categories: Poetry

For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.

One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge ...

Mary and the Rabbit Dream

By Noémi Kiss-Deáki
Categories: Fiction

A sardonic, feminist reimagining of the story of Mary Toft, infamous rabbit-birthing hoaxer.

Mary Toft was just another eighteenth-century woman living in poverty, misery, and frequent pain. The kind of ...

No Jews Live Here

By John Lorinc
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.

From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations ...

Pale Shadows

By Dominique Fortier
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
Categories: Fiction

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When she died, Emily Dickinson ...