Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Asian Heritage Month: Nonfiction Spotlight
This week for Asian Heritage Month we are sharing six nonfiction titles that provide a deep historical landscape across multiple cultures. Including stories of immigration and resilience, as well as some photographs of historical events.
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Asian Heritage Month: Nonfiction Spotlight
This week for Asian Heritage Month we’re sharing six nonfiction titles that provide a deep historical landscape across multiple cultures. Including stories of immigration and resilience, as well as some photographs of historical events.
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Collected Collections: (Even More) Debuts
There are so many great debut short story collections we couldn’t help but to share more for our Collected Collections series. With imaginative range these authors introduce us to spins on reality that consider loneliness, loss, and resilience.
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Queer Coded: Interview with Kimia Eslah
Today marks the date of our first Queer Coded interview! We’re thrilled we got the chance to talk with Kimia Eslah, author of Sister Seen, Sister Heard (Roseway Publishing), about how queerness is reflective in her writing process and how representing forms of systemic discrimination is important to her.
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Character Study: Big Shadow
The latest author to don our casting director’s cap is Marta Balcewicz, whose debut novel about art and power dynamics Big Shadow (Book*hug Press) gets the Hollywood treatment. See which actors Marta has chosen to play the naive-but-rapidly maturing Judy and has-been poetry scenester Maurice Blunt, among the other main characters in the novel.
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Asian Heritage Month: Drama Spotlight (with guest recommender David Yee!)
We’re thrilled to have David Yee as our Asian Heritage Month guest recommender this week: the Dora- and GG-nominated playwright and actor shares eight plays that are sure to make your reading a little more dramatic. (Note, our why you should read its should also be read as why you should see its this time!)
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Collected Collections: From the Fantastic
Today’s trio of featured short story collections are indeed fantastic – favourably reviewed and award-nominees to boot – but also fantastic. These collections let the short story form do its best work in introducing concepts and characters that are wonderfully weird – and dare we say, fantastical – in ways that might not work in a full-length novel.
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Writer’s Block: Catherine Graham
We interview award-winning author Catherine Graham about what led her to writing and about her most rewarding experience of being a writer. Check out Graham’s latest release, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead(Wolsak & Wynn).
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Writer’s Block: Catherine Graham
We interview award-winning author Catherine Graham about what led her to writing and about her most rewarding experience of being a writer. Check out Graham’s latest release, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead(Wolsak & Wynn).
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You’re Not Superwoman and That’s Okay
In honour of Mother’s Day, we’re excited to share an essay from Erin Pepler’s incisive and hilarious collection Send Me Into the Woods Alone: Essays on Motherhood (Invisible Publishing). Moms of the world: read and commiserate (and children and partners of the world, read and take note).
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Beautiful Books: Toronto as Community
A former Toronto city planner, Vincenzo Pietropaolo turned his scrutinizing eye to photography, specifically, photographing his fellow Toronto citizens in moments where they engaged with their communities. It’s our lucky day: Vincenzo has shared some of the remarkable photos and stories from his new art book Toronto as Community: Fifty Years of Photographs (Cormorant Books) with us.
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Asian Heritage Month: Poetry Spotlight
Next up for Asian Heritage Month, we’re shining a spotlight on poetry collections that can’t be missed. A mix of debuts and award-winning authors, these poets provide perspectives of war, immigration, and what it means to grapple with multiple cultural identities.
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Collected Collections: Debuts
Next up on our roster for the ALU Collected Collection series, we present debuts from some astounding authors. These stories take readers into the dark realities of everyday life, along with the anxieties that are not subject to one group of people. Included on the debut list is the new edition of Casey Plett’s collection…
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Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo is annually held on May 5th as the celebration of Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Today, Cinco de Mayo is largely celebrated in the town of Puebla and in the U.S. by Mexican Americans. The way we choose to celebrate here at ALU…
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10 Books for Mom
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we’ve rounded up ten books for mom: ones she would like to read, and ones about motherhood (that she would also like to read). Read on and get inspired to give (or, if you are a mom, drop major hints for what you want to get).
Got any book recommendations?