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On Telling the Truth in Politics
An excerpt from new memoir The Queer Evangelist, Cheri DiNovo's story of her life as a queer minister, politician and st …
The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winners The Fan Brothers
We continue our special coverage of this year’s Governor General's Literature Award winners in conversation with the a …
Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books on Jewish Heritage
Compelling stories showcasing Jewish Heritage to be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winner Madhur Anand
Check out our conversation with Madhur Anand, whose brilliant experimental memoir This Red Line Goes Straight to Your He …
Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)
Erika Thorkelson's "Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)" is one of the essays in Midlife, a new essay collection explo …
The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winner Michelle Good
Today we are pleased to kick off our special coverage of the 2020 Governor General's Award winners (English-language) wi …
The World Up Close
A recommended reading list by author of new book CATTAIL SKYLINE on paying close attention to the small and particular.
The Keepers on My Bookshelf
Depth and humour are themes in this great recommended reading list by the author of the new middle grade novel What's in …
How Does a Woman Become a Writer?
"The writers who interest me most, always, are women who write about themselves in ways that a male writer never could." …
11 Essay Collections to Revisit Now
"The bestselling novel of a decade ago will sometimes seem stale or irrelevant today, but that’s rarely true of an ess …
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Walk on Over: 8 Books about Walking and Place
Mobile is Tanis MacDonald's uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee's words, see the "lives we had not lived" that "invisibly stain" the city? What are the sexual politics of occupying space in a city, in a workspace, in history? How can we name our vulnerabilities and our disasters and still find strength?
In this recommended reading list, MacDonald suggests some literary walking companions.
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Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person, by Erín Moure
Moure’s translation of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessao’s O Guardador de Rebanhos is such a work of beauty. Transposing sheep to cats and the fields of Portugal to the grid of streets around St. Clair and Vaughan Road in Toronto, Moure finds the underground creek system in the sewers, and follows history, geography, and the flow of …
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Walk on Over: 8 Books about Walking and Place
Mobile is Tanis MacDonald's uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee's words, see the "lives we had not lived" that "invisibly stain" the city? What are the sexual politics of occupying space in a city, in a workspace, in history? How can we name our vulnerabilities and our disasters and still find strength?
In this recommended reading list, MacDonald suggests some literary walking companions.
*****
Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person, by Erín Moure
Moure’s translation of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessao’s O Guardador de Rebanhos is such a work of beauty. Transposing sheep to cats and the fields of Portugal to the grid of streets around St. Clair and Vaughan Road in Toronto, Moure finds the underground creek system in the sewers, and follows history, geography, and the flow of …
