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Books that Trace Aftermaths
"I admire a writer who enters the ruins with curiosity and courage, engages with our flawed and tender human ways with honesty."
Biggest and Best: Finding My Literary Champions
A recommended reading list by the author of new book Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest.
28 Short Story Collections I Can't Recommend Enough
To cap off this year's Short Story Month, I’m honoured to make a list of some of my favourite collections of all time, the ones that if you haven’t …
Bad Immigrant
An excerpt from the new book Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World.
Pick Up a Book: Spring Reads to Put on Your Radar
Excellent fiction you need to know.
The Last Best West Remains Under Siege: The Weekender Effect II
"Most of the rest of the world would give anything to have what we are giving up—what we are, in effect, squandering."
Shelf Talkers: Books to Usher Us into Summer!
There is a moment which comes around this time every year.
Curiously, we don’t know when it will come.
We don’t know what form it will take.
And, despite …
How Did I End Up Here?
A recommended reading list by the author of Exit Strategies.
The Chat with Henry Tsang
Artist Henry Tsang has put together a powerful book exploring the 1907 Anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. The essays and photographs featured in White Riot: …
The Strange Is Real
A recommended reading list by the author of the new novel Big Shadow.