There are only two days left until Halloween! Embrace the season with this handpicked selection of gory, haunted, uncanny, weird, and downright spooky reads. Ranging from horror to the horror-inspired, creepy to the creepy-adjacent, this list touches on a diverse array of subjects from disability, to the creative process, to sisterhood, to the pitfalls of […]
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Gail Scott’s Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs, was recently named a finalist for Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2021. To quote the awards jury, Gail Scott is a “véritable icône of Montreal’s literary scene… Her work is both humourous and érudite and […]
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Today we celebrate the release of a Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language, edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza and Ayelet Tsabari, with contributions from twenty-six writers. This moving and lyrical anthology opens a compelling dialogue about language diversity and the way language intersects with power, privilege, and identity. Read on to learn all about […]
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Today, we pick up our In Conversation series with the endlessly thoughtful Talya Rubin, author of the poetry collection Iceland Is Melting and So Are You. Read on to learn all about her ideas surrounding climate change and environmental poetry, and for news about the upcoming virtual launch taking place on November 10! In the […]
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The fall literary awards season is upon us! Read on to learn all about the authors who have become finalists over the past week and the wonderful, transfiguring reads that are up for some of Canada’s most prestigious awards. ❧ 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Finalist: You Are Eating an Orange. You Are […]
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Next up in our Active Listening series is Suture, Nic Brewer’s inspiring debut novel which blends body horror with incisive meditations on love, pain, and the creative process. “I read this book with wonder,” writes Gillian Wigmore, author of Glory, “Brewer’s confident prose swept me along. Hers is sure, sharp writing that doesn’t flinch from […]
Continue readingToday, we celebrate the release Iceland Is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin! Positioned at the brink of the climate crisis, this urgent collection of poetry offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two. Read on to learn all about […]
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We’re excited to join the American Literary Translators Association for the debut of #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translators and their publishers ahead of and during the virtual portion of the ALTA44 conference (October 15-17). Use the discount code readtheworld at checkout and save 20% off of all titles in our Literature In Translation Series […]
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Today we are delighted to welcome award-winning writer Hasan Namir to the Book*hug Blog. In the following essay, Namir introduces readers to some of the thoughts and feelings surrounding his latest collection Umbilical Cord, poems documenting the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Parents or would-be parents will enjoy these […]
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Please join us in celebrating the release of Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born by Mona Høvring, translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin! Read on to learn all about this award-winning title, the latest in our much-loved Literature in Translation Series. Happy Book Birthday to Because Venus […]
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