Reviewer Hannah Pearson Interviews Karin Adams, Author of The One Week Writing Workshop / Rare is the reader who doesn’t occasionally entertain the dream of writing. But too often, that lovely thought gets challenged by all manner of... Read More

“I love seeing how characters act in very oppressive environments—the ways they find to still be themselves, even without expansive freedom. They might say something clever, or they might just break a vase, you never know. People are... Read More

We Called Them Giants / Kieron GillenStephanie HansClayton Cowles / Image Comics / Hardcover (104pp) / 978-1-5343-8707-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A teenage girl encounters huge, mysterious aliens in the engrossing... Read More

“By weaving together storytelling, science communication, and visual arts, we hope that our approach [in the book] will help people expand their understanding of themselves and their place in the solar system. … Furthermore, by... Read More

Night Train to Odesa / Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War / Jen Stout / Polygon / Hardcover $28.95 (288pp) / 978-1-84697-647-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Reporter Jen Stout’s Night Train to Odesa is a... Read More

“Historically, many researchers have assumed that the only purpose of sex is reproduction, and so queer behaviours have been either dismissed or ignored. But we know that this isn’t the case. Sex can have multiple different purposes,... Read More

The Last Witch in Edinburgh / Marielle Thompson / Kensington Books / Softcover $17.95 (384pp) / 978-1-4967-4264-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Marielle Thompson’s intimate and enlightened historical novel The... Read More

“For many Indigenous peoples, certain objects (such as canoes and totem poles) have a spiritual significance, and like actual ancestors’ bodies, must be honoured, left in place to return to earth (rather than gathered and displayed... Read More