Did you know August 31 is We Love Memoirs Day? We help you hop-to loving memoirs with these 10 new and upcoming memoir picks.

Twenty-four staggeringly talented authors contributed to our August #ALUbookclub pick, After Realism (Véhicule Press). We talk with anthology editor André Forget about making a cohesive collection out of two-dozen unique voices, and why a good revisiting of realist writing ... Read more

We're finally in those long summer days, and with sand and surf (or the lake equivalent to surf) on the horizon for our staffers, we ask what books are likely to grace their beach blankets this summer. Read on to see our summer 2022 staff picks!

In celebration of Filipino Heritage Month, we're shining a spotlight on some stellar Filipino authors and playwrights.  

With the long-awaited season 4 of Stranger Things being released on Netflix today, we wonder what other supernatural mysteries we can read this weekend (after binging all 7 episodes tonight). 

Phoebe Tsang discusses the myriad influences - from Chekov to Sharon Butala - that went into her debut short story collection  Setting Fire to Water (Thistledown Press). We learn how the short story can be like a "perfectly seasoned hors d’oeuvre" and read an excerpt ... Read more

Kelly Kaur's novel Letters to Singapore (Stonehouse Publishing), brings to life Simran, who after a close escape from an arrange marriage, attends university in Calgary. The letters she writes to her mother, sister and friends reveal life is fraught with conflict, hilarity ... Read more

Carlie Blume lists her poetry muse(s) behind her collection  Gigglepuss (Guernica Editions) as "a collective of all the empathetic, hard working women in my life": most notably her grandmother, who made the incredibly difficult, incredibly brave decision to pursue MAID. ... Read more

Author Sifton Tracey Anipare joins us in this edition of Off/Kilter to share more about her debut novel Yume (Dundurn Press)—how living and working as a teacher in Japan would inspire the dreams that would help her begin writing the novel and the Japanese mythology, books, ... Read more

Last week  we introduced you to our July book club pick, Eric Dupont's  Life in the Court of Matane (Baraka Books/QC Fiction) and shared a short interview with translator Peter McCambirgde for a behind-the-scenes look at how the book came together. This week, we hopped ... Read more