Book cover for The Witch of Willow Sound a novel by Vanessa F. Penney with a picture of a rabbit sitting up in a clump of flowers with a predator's jaw bone around it's neck

The Witch of Willow Sound Book Review

The Witch of Willow Sound is a novel by Vanessa F. Penney published by ECW Press. Fade Luck, a woman down on her luck, finds out that her estranged aunt, Madeline, is missing. Fade goes to Madeline’s cottage in the…

A book cover with the words "A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson" in white letters over a photo of a black trans woman. At the bottom there is the quote "A vital contribution." by Shon Faye, author of The Transgender Issue

A Short History of Trans Misogyny Book Review

A stellar deconstruction of the dehumanizing and marginalizing cultures surrounding transfemininity that transcends the contemporary understanding of transgender identities. Jules GillPeterson’s A Short History of Trans Misogyny spans centuries, cultures and peoples as she digs up the colonial roots of…

Princess Nai and Other Stories book cover with the words of the title and Jamel Saeed with a drawing of someone playing a recorder with flowers falling around them on the right and a pomegranate tree on the left

Princess Nai and Other Stories Book Review

Princess Nai and Other Stories by Jamal Saeed is a collection of stories written in a Syrian prison where he was a prisoner of conscience for twelve years. Saeed now lives in Kingston, Ontario. He wrote some stories in this…

Book cover with the image of a woman with the words The Beauty of Us. "Undeniably cinematic." Cathrine Hernandez, author and screenwriter of Scarborough the book and film. Farzana Doctor.

The Beauty of Us Book Review

The Beauty of Us is a fiction book that follows the stories of Leesa, Zahabiya, and Nahla; two students and a teacher at Thornton Academy. Zahabiya struggles to fit in as a racialized student while coping with a changing family…