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Virginia Woolf, the migrant caravan, and the fluid boundaries between people Photo by Karl Fredrickson A s the caravan of immigrants crossed the Usumacinta river that marks...

Joseph Scapellato, author of “The Made Up Man,” recommends existential crime novels The public high school I went to was huge enough to have a radio station....

You is a wonderfully creepy Netflix series, with season 1 available for streaming since December 26. It stars Penn Badgley, of Gossip Girl fame, and while it...

Sergio Ruzzier is a children’s picture book author and illustrator, and his books are delightfully quirky and charming, with wonderful warm humour and a lot of...

Look, it’s February, and it’s been a rough 12 months, so I’ve been reading a lot of romance in addition to not getting to drink nearly...

There are many things to blame for my literary life. Perhaps it was the bookshelves all over my parents’ house, the signed copies of picture books...

Poetry was the medium which made me fall in love with literature, and yet, it’s what I have least consumed through the years. Because poetry books...

I didn’t know the Mars rover had a name until recently. Then I saw a post on social media. NASA had been monitoring the Opportunity Rover...

Rupi Kaur has established herself as more than just an Instagram poet; she has edited two poetry books which resound deeply amongst women everywhere. Her latest volume,...