In his forthcoming collection of essays  Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness (Véhicule Press), poet, writer, and scholar George Elliott Clarke discusses the myriad ways Blackness and other marginalized identities are left out, othered, or actively demonized by the Canadian ... Read more

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Both Karyn L. Freedman's  One Night in Paris (Freehand Books) and Karin Martel's  Shop Class Hall Pass (Signature Editions) are memoirs ... Read more

Playwright Suvendrini Lena and translator Dushy Gnanapragasam share how the experience of the Tamil diaspora creates unique challenges to the writing and translating of a play featuring Tamil characters, with respect to Lena's play - translated by Gnanapragasam into Tamil -  ... Read more

For this edition of Poetry in Motion, award-winning poet and novelist Carolyn Marie Souaid introduces the breadth and depth of 25 years of writing poetry, encapsulated in a new anthology of her work,  This Side of Light (Signature Editions). Read more about Carolyn's "concept ... Read more

Whether you’re looking for creative inspiration, something emotionally touching, or just wanting to dip your toe into poetry to see what’s out there—we’ve got you covered! Explore poetry through All Lit Up’s New Year, New Me selections below.

The Newfoundland-based, award-winning author Bridget Canning (most recently of the story collection No One Knows About Us, Breakwater Books) closes out our Gift Guide week with recommendations to suit a wide variety of book-lovers - a novel, story collection, kids' book, ... Read more

For this instalment of ALU Gift Guide Week, writers Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and H. Felix Chau Bradley have teamed up; they each recommend two faves, and then join in on a recommendation (let's call it doubly-recommended). In addition to being Metonymy Press authors (of  ... Read more

It's the final day of Best Bets, and we're closing out our fortnight of recommendations with two CanLit classics. One is a gorgeous new illustrated edition of W.O. Mitchell's timeless book,  Who Has Seen the Wind (Freehand Books), and the other is a classic-to-be, Brian Thomas ... Read more

These Best Bets are for the helpers that are engaged in community for when times get difficult. In Shadows and Light (Goose Lane Editions) emergency physician Heather Patterson takes readers to the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and giving them an illuminating, behind-the-scenes ... Read more

These Best Bets are for those superfans on your list: they saw the concert, joined the fanclub, bought the t-shirt. Music fans will naturally gravitate to the in-depth knowledge in the second edition of  The Bob Dylan Albums by Anthony Varesi (Guernica Editions), and pop ... Read more