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    • Nov 30, 2021 Youth: A Concept Described by its End by Chidera Ukairo Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Excerpt: "Conversations with Arabs" by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch Nov 30, 2021
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    • Nov 30, 2021 Jaclyn Desforges Reviews Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk and A Small Homecoming by Furqan Mohamed Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Reading & Writing for the Inner Child: Reflections from YA Authors Liselle Sambury, M.T. Khan, and L. Akhter in Conversation with Iqra Abid Nov 30, 2021
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    • Nov 30, 2021 Manahil Bandukwala Reviews Shashi Bhat’s The Most Precious Substance on Earth Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 James Grainger Reviews John Vigna’s No Man’s Land Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Chidera Ukairo Reviews Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 It’s About Time: James Cairns Reviews Andrew Potter’s On Decline, and Stephen Dale’s Shift Change: Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Nov 30, 2021
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    • Nov 30, 2021 Excerpt: "Personal Attention Roleplay" by Helen Chau Bradley Nov 30, 2021
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    • Nov 30, 2021 Ruchika Gothoskar Reviews Samantha Garner’s The Quiet is Loud Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Premee Mohamed Reviews Julietta Singh's The Breaks Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Anuja Varghese Reviews Rahela Nayebzadah’s Monster Child Nov 30, 2021
    • Nov 30, 2021 Joe Ollmann Reviews Thomas King's Borders, illustrated by Natasha Donovan Nov 30, 2021
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    • Jun 9, 2021 The Forms that the Book Swallows Jun 9, 2021
    • Jun 2, 2021 Literary Gratitude Jun 2, 2021
  • May 2021
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    • May 19, 2021 Art as Connection in the Keeping Six Quarterly May 19, 2021
    • May 12, 2021 Anuja Varghese Reviews Nisha Patel’s Coconut: A Review in Conversations May 12, 2021
  • April 2021
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    • Apr 19, 2021 Read the Hammer Apr 19, 2021
    • Apr 9, 2021 20 Poetry Collections You May Have Missed in 2020 Apr 9, 2021
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    • Mar 24, 2021 Jaclyn Desforges Reviews Saturn Peach and Interviews Lily Wang Mar 24, 2021
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    • Mar 17, 2021 Giveaway: Books and Beer Mar 17, 2021
    • Mar 12, 2021 From Our Editors, Spring 2021 Mar 12, 2021
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    • Feb 19, 2021 Flight Forward Feb 19, 2021
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    • Nov 16, 2020 This Land Is Your Land?: What Matters Now, Fall 2020 Nov 16, 2020
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    • Nov 16, 2020 Taken by the Muse by Anne Wheeler Nov 16, 2020
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    • Nov 16, 2020 The Leader of the Fourth World: James Cairns Reviews Peter McFarlane’s (with Doreen Manuel) Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Shazia Hafiz Ramji Reviews Dominik Parisien’s Side Effects May Include Strangers Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Jamie Tennant Reviews Greg Marquis’ John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Lives Lost Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Steeltown Redux: Mark Osbaldeston Reviews Paul Weinberg’s Reclaiming Hamilton: Essays from the New Ambitious City Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 Peace by Chocolate Nov 16, 2020
    • Nov 16, 2020 David A. Robertson Reviews Thomas King's Indians on Vacation Nov 16, 2020
  • October 2020
    • Oct 15, 2020 13 Spine-tingling Titles for Halloween 2020 Oct 15, 2020
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    • Sep 4, 2020 What We're Reading: Editors' Picks, Fall 2020 Sep 4, 2020
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    • Aug 13, 2020 Jennifer McCartney Reviews Brent van Staalduinen's Boy Aug 13, 2020
  • July 2020
    • Jul 9, 2020 Mark Grenon Reviews Gary Barwin's For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe: New & Selected Poems Jul 9, 2020
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    • Jun 9, 2020 What They're Reading: Booksellers' Picks, Spring/Summer 2020 Jun 9, 2020
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    • May 30, 2020 What They're Reading: Booksellers' Picks, Spring/Summer 2020 May 30, 2020
    • May 19, 2020 Jessica Rose Reviews Catherine Ocelot's Art Life May 19, 2020
    • May 19, 2020 Creating a Literary Archive by Rebecca Rosenblum May 19, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Reading Crisis: Introducing What Matters Now, Spring 2020 May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Chelene Knight Reviews Jillian Christmas's The Gospel of Breaking and Canisia Lubrin's The Dyzgraphxst May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Concentrating, Collaborating, and Clorox Wiping: A Roundtable Interview about Books and the Pandemic May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Miranda Carroll Reviews Tyler Enfield's Like Rum-Drunk Angels May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 London Calling: Shazlin Rahman Reviews Eternity Martis's They Said This Would Be Fun May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 From Our Editors, Spring 2020 May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Excavating the Complexities of Humans May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Ancestral Waters by Waubgeshig Rice May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Uncanny, Ferocious, Funny May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Moving On: Shawn Selway Reviews James Wilt's Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Shazia Hafiz Ramji Reviews Maria Reva's Good Citizens Need Not Fear May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Jenny Ferguson Reviews Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body: A Memoir May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 The Complicated Place of André Alexis in Black CanLit by Scott Fraser May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Sally Cooper Reviews Gil Adamson's Ridgerunner May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Throw Away the Rule Book: Irene Tencinger Reviews Lauren McKeon’s No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules. May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Reviews Amanda Leduc's Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space May 15, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 Getting Schooled: James Cairns Reviews Paul Bocking’s Public Education, Neoliberalism, and Teachers: New York, Mexico City, Toronto May 15, 2020
  • April 2020
    • Apr 6, 2020 What We're Reading: Editors' Picks, Spring 2020 Apr 6, 2020
  • February 2020
    • Feb 24, 2020 Cynthia Carpenter Reviews Anne Bokma's My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful - One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life Feb 24, 2020
    • Feb 5, 2020 What Matters Now Winter 2020: Fearing and Hoping for a Crisis of Democracy Feb 5, 2020
  • November 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Solo Camping While Female by Christen Thomas Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Geoffrey Nilson Reviews Sonnet L'Abbé's Sonnet's Shakespeare Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 What Matters Now Fall 2019: Mapping Contemporary Political Power Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Excerpt: Sonja Boon's What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Carleigh Baker Reviews Lynn Coady's Watching You Without Me Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Some Accidental Encounter Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Feeling the Burn: Ian Borsuk Reviews Naomi Klein’s On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 James Grainger Reviews Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s Claremont Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 A Wholistic Point of View Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Jenny Ferguson Reviews Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Erin Wunker Reviews Robyn Doolittle's Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo? Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Enter, Explore, and Understand Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Richard Van Holst Reviews Dorothy Ellen Palmer’s Falling for Myself Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Casey Plett Reviews Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Sexism and the City: Sue Ferguson Reviews Leslie Kern’s Feminist City: A Field Guide Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Chelene Knight Reviews Annahid Dashtgard's Breaking the Ocean Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 From Our Editors, Fall 2019 Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Charting the Disorderly Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Fuller Democracy: James Cairns Reviews Roslyn Fuller's In Defence of Democracy Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Dana Hansen Reviews Phillipa K. Chong's Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times Nov 22, 2019
  • October 2019
    • Oct 17, 2019 Phillip Crymble Reviews John Wall Barger's The Mean Game Oct 17, 2019
  • September 2019
    • Sep 27, 2019 Welcome to “What Matters Now” Sep 27, 2019
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    • Nov 16, 2018 Featured Artist: Stylo Starr Nov 16, 2018
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