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Book Review: Pondering Beauty During a Pandemic

Shapes of Native Nonfiction delivers 27 lyric essays from 18 indigenous authors. The essays are grouped into four sections—technique, coiling, plaiting, and twining.

Book Review: Shapes of Native Nonfiction

Shapes of Native Nonfiction delivers 27 lyric essays from 18 indigenous authors. The essays are grouped into four sections—technique, coiling, plaiting, and twining.

Book Review: Requiem For My Rave

It’s all here: the good, the bad and the sketchy. Hulla parties were an exciting and risky destination for the underground kandy kids of Toronto…

Stone’s “Formation” a Delight

It was a delight to discover Tammy T. Stone’s Formation. In this collection of poetry written left aligned and in fairly loose form…

Layered Poetry in heft by Doyali Islam

I dream seafloor shells, bones / stirring in walls: forgotten, lithified / things buzzing, buzzing beneath a drone’s wings.

To Hell and Back

Book Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater

Instantly, the first chapter of Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi introduces a peculiar, dissociative predicament, “By the time she (our body) struggled out into the world, slick and louder than a village…

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Book Review: Chew it Over

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound—or, in some cases, several hundred—of cure. This age-old-adage is the cornerstone of Alex Nedvetsky’s self-help health book…