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The radio show celebrating Jack Layton is up on Gathering Voices.

In the tradition of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes and The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, this collection of short essays and “alternative versions” is a vivid, perhaps even shocking, reminde

“There is a shadow of a boy walking within me. His spirit is lightning fire. He will not be shackled. At birth, I was labeled a girl. My name is Jazz.

In this dark satire of pop culture, an unnamed, teenaged narrator describes his descent into violence and destruction.

Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters.

Against God is the gripping, dark tale of a man searching for answers. What happens in the mind of a man when, all of a sudden, he loses all reason for living?

The year is 1773. Anne Grant cannot bear that her father has betrothed her to a man who is as cruel as he is wealthy.

Helena’s disfigured face has defined her since childhood, yet with her older sister Grace’s unconditional love and encouragement, she is able to establish a sense of normalcy.

Costume and Bone’s two stories are set in downtown Toronto during the 1980s, when Queen Street West was lined with hotel taverns and crumbling shops overlaid with the dwellings of its residents.

Here is the work of a masterful and much-honed poet at the peak of her powers. Sharp and strong as steel blades, these poems fuse eerie beauty with gleaming wit, and strangeness with tenderness.

This collection offers five answers to the question its title implies: within us, in wild things, in change over time, in teething and in being left behind.

The Sandbar is a collection of vignettes from the Sandbar, a small-town watering hole in Northern Michigan owned by an eccentric couple with a penchant for stiff drinks.

An archaeologist of the human heart, Paul Zemokhol uncovers the memories of his Egyptian ancestors and their lost world by the Nile, and he starkly juxtaposes them with his own plain experiences of

Real Gone turns the myth of the Sixties on its head. The protagonist may be a peripatetic young man on an intense search but he knows that the gaff is in.

In The Sea, Amela Marin takes the universal story of Exodus and pares it down to a seemingly simple allegory, in which a mother places her two children in her pockets and attempts to leave her besi