Two Canadian trans authors share their stories of struggle and triumphKristen Worley and Lorimer Shenher delve into their journeys in their new books; ’Woman Enough’ and ’This One Looks Like a Boy’
Alicia Elliott on the spectacular Indigenous renaissance in Canadian artsAnd how real reconciliation is going to require an internal reformation within non-Indigenous Canada
How Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale became a vivid graphic novelWhile creating her version of the story, Vancouver artist Renee Nault had a series of conversations with the renowned author
The best way to save nature? Do nothing.Peter Wohlleben argues no matter how much humans think they’re ruining the planet, the natural world will ultimately prevail
’The Plotters’ by Un-su Kim and the rising profile of Korean literatureThe dark-as-a-dungeon page-turner shows the Korean wave isn’t just about film and pop music
A son’s memoir: ’It would never have occurred to him that he gave me so much anguish’Mark Abley writes about a difficult parent, a renowned musician who was unable to teach him how to be a man
Are Baby Boomers the suicide generation?Pondering his brother’s death, an author asks if Boomers are pre-programmed to end their own lives in his new book, ’To The River: Losing My Brother’
These are the books you need to read in 2019More Trump, memoirs and Ian McEwan: Many titles evoke the U.S. leader, but there’s respite, and even the devil, in fiction
Esi Edugyan’s exquisite novel about freedom takes this year’s Scotiabank Giller PrizeEdugyan on rewriting Washington Black’s many drafts: ’If you had seen the first one you’d never have expected it to have come out the way it did.’
The best books to read this winterFrom the sex lives of First World War soldiers to the stunning new novel from Esi Edugyan, this list offers a seasonal banquet