Author of  Chocolate Cherry Chai and  Ruby Red Skies (both Roseway Publishing) Taslim Burkowicz kicks off 2022's Gift Guide Week with four stellar fiction picks and one memoir for the flapper wannabe, dystopia watcher, or productive grandparent (plus two more!) on your ... Read more

Written over a period of twenty years, Adele Graf's buckled into the sky (Guernica Editions) could not be more timely, with its focus on the essential nature of "home"—wherever that might be. 

In our Q&A, Adele discusses more of the central themes that tie this collection ... Read more

In honour of Black History Month, we've put together six reading recommendations from Black authors who share essential stories of struggle, healing and resilience in the face of racism and social injustice.

This week on All Lit Up: staff book picks for fall reading, debut poetry, Leonard Cohen, thrilling historical fiction, and more. 

Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light has been participating in BookRiot's  Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along ... Read more

Fred Wah's  Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks) is is a lifelong poem project that responds to readings in contemporary writing, art, and ideas from the past forty years. It works through language as a practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens ... Read more

Defeat your quarantine boredom with books — which will you take into battle? Choose your fighter below!

Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can't wait to read in Fall, but since we've already tackled that, we're counting to three with:

1. Looking back on some fave memories;
2. Sharing 20 books we've loved over the years (+ making ... Read more

This week we cheered on ARP Books author Kaie Kellough ( Accordéon) and Freehand Books author Catherine Cooper ( White Elephant) at the Amazon First Novel Award ceremony, painted our nails to match some awesome book covers, and got our short story on.

We’re heading into our last week of our National Poetry Month interview series, Poets Resist, where we have words with the @#$% patriarchy with five mighty poetry collections. Until then, we'll leave you with some bookish news around the web.