Listening for What’s Missing: Notes and novels, pages and spaces

2020-05-21T15:59:17-04:00

"I do know that missing is a feeling," Ruby announces, in Riel Nason's debut, The Town that Drowned. Is it? It's true for Ruby, and her story is preoccupied with what is being lost, a chronological tale rooted in the moments of losing. At first glance, it seems as though Lydia Perović's All

Listening for What’s Missing: Notes and novels, pages and spaces2020-05-21T15:59:17-04:00

Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Butterflies in November (2003; 2014)

2017-07-24T14:20:42-04:00

Almost ten years after its original publication, Butterflies in November was translated into English from the Icelandic by Brian FitzGibbon. (This was in 2013, by Pushkin Press, though the edition which appears below was published in 2014 by Grove/Atlantic.) 2003; Translated Brian FitzGibbon, 2013 It gained substantial attention

Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir’s Butterflies in November (2003; 2014)2017-07-24T14:20:42-04:00

September 2016, In My Notebook (IFOA2016)

2016-09-29T20:34:03-04:00

Unless we've just met, you already know that I am slightly obsessed with the International Festival of Authors. I've already told the story about how it was one of the reasons I moved to Toronto, so that I could attend Harbourfront events without a hotel bill (like the one earlier this

September 2016, In My Notebook (IFOA2016)2016-09-29T20:34:03-04:00

MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection (2016)

2019-05-11T19:50:37-04:00

"There is no single homogenous native identity and MOONSHOT is an extensive exploration of the vast variety of indigenous storytelling in North America," explains Hope Nicholson. That's editor Hope Nicholson: she and Andy Stanleigh work hard at AH Comics (Alternative History Comics) to make room on the page for voices which

MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection (2016)2019-05-11T19:50:37-04:00

Deni Ellis Béchard’s Into the Sun (2016)

2020-01-07T11:17:37-05:00

Have you ever missed your stop on public transit because of a book? House of Anansi, 2016 Into the Sun is so gripping, from the start, that I travelled four stops past my own stop, before I even realized that I had missed it. (Then, I was so surprised,

Deni Ellis Béchard’s Into the Sun (2016)2020-01-07T11:17:37-05:00
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