The World Is Moving around Me

By Dany Laferriere
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, BIPOC, Black Literature, Social Issues

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferriere had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some 300,000 others did not. The quake caused ...

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

By Stan Douglas
Contributions by Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lutticken, and Jesse Proudfoot
Categories: Social Issues, BIPOC, Black Literature, Politics, History, British Columbia, Visual Arts, Photography, Cultural Studies

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, an art book on the politics of urban conflict, is based on the work of Stan Douglas, one of Canada's most revered contemporary artists. His film and video ...

After Canaan

By Wayde Compton
Categories: Cultural Studies, Canada, BIPOC, Black Literature

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award

After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous ...

The Reverend's Apprentice

By David N. Odhiambo
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Black Literature

The Reverend's Apprentice, the third novel by David N. Odhiambo, is a powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes of an African ...

Got 'til it's Gone

By Larry Duplechan
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction

Winner of a Lambda Literary Award (gay romance)

As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got 'til it's Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego ...

Soucouyant

By David Chariandy
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction

By the award-winning author of Brother
Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Winner, ForeWord ...

Blackbird

By Larry Duplechan
Introduction by Michael Nava
Categories: Fiction, Youth Culture, BIPOC, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Little Sister's Classics

First published by St. Martin's Press in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high ...

Performance Bond

By Wayde Compton
Categories: Poetry, Music, BIPOC, Black Literature

In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of Black culture.

With poetry ...

So Long Been Dreaming

Edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Anthologies, Black Literature, Asian Literature

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British ...

The Real Jerk

By Lily Pottinger & Ed Pottinger
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Cooking

There's a Jamaican phrase, "Out of many, one people," that is reflected in the style of cooking from the Caribbean: distinct, bold flavours coming together to create an electric experience. Such is the ...