Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp ...

The Cure for Hate

By Tony McAleer
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Social Issues

How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi ...

Major Misconduct

By Jeremy Allingham
Categories: Health, Canada, Social Issues

Every night in hockey arenas across Canada and the United States, modern-day gladiators drop their gloves and exchange bare-fisted blows to the bloodthirsty roars of the paying public. Tens of millions ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Health, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian ...

The Antifa Comic Book

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Mark Bray
Categories: Social Issues, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Politics, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. ...

Fighting for Space

By Travis Lupick
Categories: Health, Cultural Studies, History, Social Issues, British Columbia, Canada

Winner, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. ...

Dead Reckoning

By Carys Cragg
Categories: True Crime, Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction

A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year

Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)

When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father, a respected ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: History, Politics, Social Issues, Cultural Studies, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. ...

The Remedy

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Trans Literature, Health, Anthologies, Lesbian Literature

Lambda Literary Award winner

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving ...