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FeaturesShort story collection aims to connect present losses with the past
Adam’s Tree by Gloria Mehlmann is a collection of linked short stories, set in a First Nations community, in the time period immediately after the Second World War. -
En FrançaisDes conversations philosophiques qui jouent avec les règles de la langue
Des jeunes adultes québécois passent une fin de semaine ensemble. Ils vivent, ils discutent et partagent leurs opinions. -
En Français
Philosophical conversations play with the rules of language
Young adults from Quebec spend a weekend together. They enjoy life. They discuss and share their opinions. -
FeaturesMeet the Mighty Muskrats, a crew of sleuths and activists
Young readers who like a mystery have a new series to enjoy and anticipate. The Case of Windy Lake, the first in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series for middle grade readers, introduces Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee, four cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. -
FeaturesRetired prairie police officer still has many stories to tell
Ernie Louttit completed his third memoir in a place called “Buzzy’s Bug Hut.” This “ideal location” was a screened enclosure at a cabin in the woods of northern Ontario. -
FeaturesRetelling the history of Canada’s 150 through an Indigenous lens
If you’re used to looking at Canadian history one way, a new graphic novel anthology will help you see it from new perspectives – Indigenous ones. -
FeaturesSharing stories of colonization across land and language
After a reading in Toronto, an older Palestinian man approached poet David Groulx with appreciation for lines from the poem “Widening the Highway on the Rez”: “now this land becomes our Palestine / broken off from torso and limb / this long execution.” In the preface to his latest collection, Groulx explains how the brief interaction made the connection between their perspectives on colonialism real, far beyond the analogy. -
Online ExclusivesPersonal essays blend art and experience to create new perspectives
Amy Fung is a writer, curator, and organizer. She is also a first-generation settler immigrant in Canada. Her new book, Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being, is a collection of personal essays that examine the country’s mythologies and realities surrounding multiculturalism, colonialism, and identity through her unique perspective as an art critic. -
FictionComing Out
Two highly anticipated debut novels by up-and- coming writers with Winnipeg connections were just published this spring. Both books – Casey Plett’s Little Fish (about a trans woman named Wendy Reimer) and Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed (about a Two-Spirit man) – have a good deal in common, besides their Winnipeg settings. -
Non-FictionSuffragette’s memoir expands with modern analysis
Ethel Marie Sentance wrote a memoir for her husband in 1952 and gave it to him as a present for their 40th wedding anniversary that year. But her personal story is reaching far beyond her family.
