Review of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings" edited by John Lorinc.

Review of "Shaman" by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Review of "Landlines" by Raynor Winn.

Review of "The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation" by Rosemary Sullivan.

Review of "The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries" by Jon S. Dellandrea.

Review of "Let the World Have You" by Mikko Harvey.

Review of "Short Story Advent Calendar" by Hingston & Olsen Publishing.

I always longed to be the falling woman—impelled by unruly passion, driven by beauty and desire, turned into stone, drowned in flowers.

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Half a breath is all it takes, in or out.

You can keep going, the moon said, if you want to.

The rooms I imagined repeating endlessly, with me at the centre.

Being a warrior princess is a lot like being an archetype of human potential.

Go to bed. Lock the door. Don’t open it for anyone.

“It's often triggered by group settings. Especially groups laughing.”

Kawishhhh! Kaaaawishhhh!

Bert scuttled through the intervals in a microscopic world of his own creation.

... I showed you / a video of faint sunsets dawning from / Ochil Hills, and my momentum when / travelling upward, against gravity ...

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"...vocabularies / reduced to virus, vaccine, variants— / that dull emergency of the daily count."

“a switch, a focus, and a temperament / suited to discovery…”

“The public air transmits / his days wirelessly / to my open window”

“It’s God’s day off, and mine too.”

“The pizza man ran over our pizzas!” He screamed, but no one believed him.

"...skinny dipping in a sea of potato chips / swaying like kelp past cookies..."

Pole, stretchers, ribs, and canopy.

At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

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The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

Border photography along the 49th parallel.

Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

30 years of Fabrice Strippoli’s photographs.

A selection of sourced images from Jonah Samson's book, "Yes Yes We're Magicians," the title of which is taken from a passage of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, "Waiting for Godot."

A series of photogLouie Paluraphs consider the history and changing geopolitics of the polar region.

(Or What Does Drowning Look Like).

Who puts those little stickers on the apples in the grocery store?

Don't mess with Madame Larmer's mojo.

Nicola Winstanley's comic on hearing spirits in the walls at a foster when she was young.

Kelsea O'Connor on queer lovers, gothic horror and fairy tale themes.

Eve Corbel creates a set of greeting cards to celebrate life's best and worst mundane moments.

Alison McCreesh encounters snow in May, a bemused gas station attendant and a dumpster to cook behind on a trip across Canada.