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Essays
- Oct 1, 2024 Sunday Mornings
- Jul 4, 2024 The Power of Black Canadian Writing
- Mar 5, 2021 Why The Book Of Negroes Matters
- Aug 27, 2018 Angels in the Asteroid: Alex B. Nurse on Black Panther
- Mar 3, 2018 Scheming and Plotting: A Collaborative Adventure
- Jan 21, 2015 The Festival
Events
- Jan 9, 2023 An Interview with Suzette Mayr
- Aug 9, 2022 Beloved Breakfast Workshop
Interviews
- Jul 24, 2024 Manifesto! Bernardine Evaristo writes a testament to never giving up
- Jul 10, 2024 Di Brandt: A Poetics of the Environment
- Jun 25, 2024 Preview: Interview with Tommy Orange on Wandering Stars
- Jun 20, 2024 Send in the Clowns
- May 31, 2024 Jeffrey Colvin's Africville: Stories of Resistance Part 2
- May 29, 2024 Jeffrey Colvin's Africville: Stories of Resistance Part 1
- May 9, 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Crossover Artist
- Apr 30, 2024 Sun, Sky, Sea and Sometimes Mud! An Interview with Joan Lavern Marshall Wilkinson
- Apr 4, 2024 Remembering Maryse Condé: Mistress of Her Own Creativity
- Nov 23, 2023 Helen Humphreys' Master Class
- May 17, 2023 Flashback to Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog
- Jan 9, 2023 An Interview with Suzette Mayr
- Sep 23, 2022 Hilary Mantel On The Giant, O’Brien and the Political Imagination
- Sep 20, 2022 Zalika Reid-Benta on Frying Plantain
- Oct 26, 2021 The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. An Interview with Aminatta Forna (Part 2)
- Oct 18, 2021 The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. An Interview with Aminatta Forna (Part 1)
- Aug 31, 2021 What You Are: A Candid Conversation with M.G. Vassanji (Part 2)
- Aug 25, 2021 What You Are: A Candid Conversation with M.G. Vassanji
- Jun 16, 2021 The Passions of Austin Clarke
- May 31, 2021 Waiting For a Star to Fall: Kerry Clare's Contemporary Take on a Tale as Old as Time
- Mar 18, 2021 Cherie Jones’ Spectacular Year
- Mar 4, 2021 Andrea Levy’s Unpredictable Approach to Slavery
- Feb 10, 2021 Can You Hear Me Now? An intimate chat with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
- Sep 29, 2020 Rachel Manley's Literary Romance
- Jun 26, 2020 Jeffrey Colvin's Africville: Stories of Resistance Part 2 (Black Lives Matter Series)
- Jun 23, 2020 Jeffrey Colvin's Africville: Stories of Resistance Part 1 (Black Lives Matter Series)
Introductions
- Feb 26, 2021 Should We Write About Slavery?
- Sep 11, 2020 Introduction to Jamaican Memories series
- Jun 22, 2020 Introduction to Black Lives Matter
- May 5, 2020 My Mother's Garden (Writers In Their Garden)
Poetry
- May 6, 2021 Dancing Lessons
- Apr 29, 2021 Meditation on Yellow
- Apr 26, 2021 B for Breathe
- Aug 12, 2020 Canisia Lubrin: 53 Acts of Living
- Jul 22, 2020 M. NourbeSe Philip: in this together (A work-in-progress)
- Jul 20, 2020 M. NourbeSe Philip: before after/after before (a work-in-progress)
- Jun 29, 2020 Kwame Dawes: Yard Boy (Black Lives Matter Series)
- Jun 24, 2020 Kwame Dawes with John Kinsella: It Is Not As If...
- Jun 19, 2020 Lorna Goodison For Sandra Bland (Black Lives Matter Series)
Profiles
- Apr 4, 2024 Remembering Maryse Condé: Mistress of Her Own Creativity
- Mar 5, 2024 Revisiting Priscila Uppal's Closet
- Nov 24, 2023 A Novel Bursts to Life: The Quiet Brilliance of Helen Humphreys
- Nov 23, 2023 Helen Humphreys' Master Class
- Dec 28, 2022 Maryse Condé: Mistress of Her Own Creativity
- Sep 23, 2022 Hilary Mantel On The Giant, O’Brien and the Political Imagination
- Sep 20, 2022 Zalika Reid-Benta on Frying Plantain
- Jul 27, 2022 Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Nigerian Writing and Integrity
- Apr 20, 2022 Steven Heighton’s Canadian Romantic
- Oct 26, 2021 The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. An Interview with Aminatta Forna (Part 2)
- Aug 31, 2021 What You Are: A Candid Conversation with M.G. Vassanji (Part 2)
- Aug 25, 2021 What You Are: A Candid Conversation with M.G. Vassanji
- Jun 16, 2021 The Passions of Austin Clarke
- Dec 8, 2020 HarperCollins Canada announces two-book deal with writer Donna Bailey Nurse
- Sep 29, 2020 Rachel Manley's Literary Romance
- Jul 7, 2020 Linton Kwesi Johnson: Cultures of Impunity (Black Lives Matter Series)
- May 16, 2020 Jamaica Kincaid: My Garden (Book) (Writers in Their Garden)
- May 12, 2020 Bonnie Burnard: A Good House (Writers In Their Garden)
- May 8, 2020 Erika de Vasconcelos: My Darling Dead Ones (Writers In Their Garden)
- May 6, 2020 Judith Kalman: The County of Birches (Writers In Their Garden)
- Aug 8, 2019 Memories of Toni Morrison
- Jul 15, 2017 Yvvette Edwards: An Interview With the Author of The Mother
- Aug 19, 2015 Marina Endicott - The Tragic Part of Ordinary Life
- Jan 21, 2015 The New Black: African Canadian Writing
- Jan 21, 2015 Priscila Uppal's Closet
- Jan 21, 2015 Edwidge Danticat: Making Space For The Dead
Reviews
- Aug 1, 2024 The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning
- Jul 10, 2024 Di Brandt: A Poetics of the Environment
- Jun 25, 2024 Preview: Interview with Tommy Orange on Wandering Stars
- Jun 20, 2024 Send in the Clowns
- Jun 11, 2024 26a by Diana Evans
- Jun 5, 2024 Pravda by Edward Docx
- May 24, 2024 A House for Mr. Narpat
- May 22, 2024 Kipligat's Chance by David N. Odhiambo
- May 16, 2024 Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
- May 14, 2024 Black Women in Church Hats
- May 9, 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Crossover Artist
- May 7, 2024 The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart by Alice Walker
- Apr 30, 2024 Sun, Sky, Sea and Sometimes Mud! An Interview with Joan Lavern Marshall Wilkinson
- Apr 23, 2024 Beyond The Blue by Andrea MacPherson
- Apr 16, 2024 David Anthony Durham’s Black Cowboys Re-Mythologize the Wild West
- Apr 10, 2024 Carol Shields: Startle and Illuminate
- Mar 21, 2024 The Family Took Shape, by Shashi Bhat
- Mar 19, 2024 Allen Dwight Callahan: The Bible Told Him So
- Mar 12, 2024 Kim Thúy and the Burdens of the Past
- Mar 5, 2024 Revisiting Priscila Uppal's Closet
- Feb 29, 2024 Home by Toni Morrison
- Feb 27, 2024 Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
- Feb 23, 2024 Childhood by Andre Alexis
- Feb 20, 2024 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Feb 15, 2024 Pink Icing and Other Stories by Pamela Mordecai
- Feb 13, 2024 See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
- Feb 8, 2024 Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
- Feb 6, 2024 Chigozie Obioma’s dark coming-of-age tale
- Nov 24, 2023 A Novel Bursts to Life: The Quiet Brilliance of Helen Humphreys
- Feb 13, 2023 A Review of Finding Edward
- Sep 23, 2022 Hilary Mantel On The Giant, O’Brien and the Political Imagination
- Apr 20, 2022 Steven Heighton’s Canadian Romantic
- Mar 17, 2022 The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- Feb 18, 2022 Brother by David Chariandy
- Feb 7, 2022 Steal Away Home: One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom
- Oct 18, 2021 The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. An Interview with Aminatta Forna (Part 1)
- Jun 10, 2021 Independence by Cecil Foster
- May 6, 2021 Dancing Lessons
- Mar 18, 2021 Cherie Jones’ Spectacular Year
- Mar 13, 2021 A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Mar 10, 2021 A novelistic tour de force about American slavery
- Mar 5, 2021 Why The Book Of Negroes Matters
- Mar 1, 2021 Marlon James’ Savage and Superb Slave Novel
- Jan 27, 2021 Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott
- Jan 21, 2021 Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
- Oct 14, 2020 Robinson, Morrison, America and "The Word"
- Oct 13, 2020 Island Girl
- Oct 9, 2020 Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River
- Sep 21, 2020 I Remember Papa
- Sep 16, 2020 Olive Senior's Magnificent Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage
- Mar 2, 2020 The Buxton Chronicles
- Jul 8, 2019 Birds of a Feather
- Jul 6, 2017 My Garden (Book) By Jamaica Kincaid
- Aug 6, 2016 Obi Simic's Engrossing Novel