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Contributors

Arden Wray is a Toronto-based photographer with a BFA

Provincial thinking

In an ideal world, authors and publishers shouldn’t be the ones ensuring students are educated on Truth and Reconciliation

Doubling down

As a writer and teacher, Keith Maillard prizes a multiplicity of approaches to literary craft

Position impossible

Staffing and funding controversies plague the half-century-old literary journal The Malahat Review

Loan Stars

EACH MONTH, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite

Never let me go

How to handle a deteriorating author/agent partnership, without burning bridges

City limits

Writers in smaller communities need to defy relocating to urban metropoles as a requirement for making art

News roundup

A local-interest bookstore for Hamilton, and a fresh rebrand for the International Festival of Authors

Relieving ourselves

Public bathrooms, supposedly built for everyone, are actually highly politicized and exclusionary spaces, writes LEZLIE LOWE

Power pose

Vivek Shraya seizes power through vulnerability in her patriarchy-detonating manifesto I’m Afraid of Men

GUIDED BY VOICES

As the audiobook format continues to grow, PRHC experiments with multiple voice narrators

NARRATING SALLY

Blink and you’ll miss Penguin Random House Canada’s

VOICE NOTES

Six lessons Anne T. Donahue learned about narrating audiobooks

FROM HERE TO EAR

A seasoned radio broadcaster discovers that narrating another writer’s words is not as easy as it appears

Hellfire and redemption

Rawi Hage returns to the wartorn city of Beirut in his latest,philosophically rich novel

Power relations

New collections from Paul Carlucci and C.P. Boyko showcase the elasticity of the story form BY BRETT JOSEF GRUBISIC

Scenes from a marriage

Set during and after the Second World War, Carol Bruneau’s fifth novel is a study of two despondent souls

Her so-called life

Helen Humphreys’s latest “hybrid” work does itself a disservice by not settling on a genre

Elements of style

Lisa Moore returns to the short-fiction genre with her magnificent third collection

An ocean of books

A biography, non-fiction resource, and picture book encourage deep-sea conservation and appreciation

Signature styles

New work from veteran illustrators Qin Leng and Marie-Louise Gay tell stories of size and seeking refuge

What the Dickens?

Polly Horvath’s latest middle-grade novel is set in 1996 Ohio but has a distinctly Victorian vibe

Surviving high school

In two new dramatic novels, senior year is ruined – thanks to a bear attack in one and leprosy in the other

A whole new world

A revised perspective on the travel guide for Eyewitness Travel’s silver anniversary