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Chris Benjamin Reviews Richard Levangie’s Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve

March 31, 2021 by : Chris Benjamin

An intricate story woven in complex characters

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 9781775371793, Dartmouth, Diversity, Nevermore Press & Trap Door Books, Nova Scotia, Puzzles, Richard Levangie, Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve, Young Adult

5 Women-Centred Books on International Women’s Day

March 8, 2021 by : Chris Benjamin

Feminist Books for International Women’s Day

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 9781552668832, 9781771088244, 9781773630571, 9781773631875, Amelia & Me, feminism, Fernwood Publishing, heather stemp, Indigeneity, Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada, Ingrid Waldron, Joyce Green, Lyric Sexology, Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press, Nova Scotia, Sarah MacKenzie, There's Something in the Water, Trans, Trish Salah, Women's Day, Women's Literature

Chris Benjamin Reviews Allan Bartley’s The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

March 3, 2021 by : Chris Benjamin

A detailed history of an American hate organization in Canada

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 9781459506138, A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom, Allan Bartley, Diversity, Formac Publishing, history, Jim Lord, multiculturalism, New Brunswick, politics, Social Justice, The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

How Excess Credit Makes the Poor Poorer

February 22, 2021 by : Chris Benjamin

In conversation with author Wayne Armitstead

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Capitalism Perverted, Economics, Exposing the Sources of Income Inequality, Nova Scotia, Wayne Armitstead

Chris Benjamin Reviews Carole Langille Glasser’s Doing Time

January 6, 2021 by : Chris Benjamin

Carole Glasser Langille’s Doing Time is a memoir like no other, about the author’s year of doing workshops for inmates at various Nova Scotia jails, women’s and men’s. The workshops were, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Carole Langille Glasser, Doing Time, Halifax, Pottersfield Press, Writing Workshops in Prison

Books Back Better

December 16, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

Sometimes a crisis presents an opportunity to rethink and become better  “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” as Churchill reportedly said in the wake of the Second World War. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ABT 92, Atlantic Books Today, Fall 2020, Issue 92

Staff Picks: Chris Benjamin Picks Black Matters

December 9, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

Black Matters features interplay between photographer Wilfried Raussert and poet Afua Cooper, where the former presents a picture, the latter responds not with description but with meditative reflection on what the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Afua Cooper, Black Matters, Black Voices, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Roseway Publishing, Wilfried Raussert

Rachel Fernandes Reviews Warrior Life

December 9, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

In the introduction to Warrior Life, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair explains that in Anishnaabemowin, the word for warrior, ogichidaa, means a person “who dedicates their entire life to building, sustaining and protecting community.” Pamela Palmater […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canada, Fernwood Publishing, Indigeneity, Mi'kma'ki, Nova Scotia, Pam Palmater, Truth and Reconciliation, Warrior Life

Chris Benjamin Reviews The Hermit

December 7, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

I read an advanced review copy of The Hermit by Jan L Coates to my eight-year-old daughter over a two-month period (a little bit every other night). The first thing I should […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Jan L Coates, Nimbus Publishing, Nova Scotia, The Hermit

#ReadAtlantic Voices
#ReadAtlantic #VOICES African-Canadian Author Video Series

November 18, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

Video interviews with prominent African-Canadian authors From mid-September until the end of October 2020, Atlantic Books Today was proud to work with the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute to co-host and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #ReadAtlantic, African Canadian, An Honourable Life, Andre Fenton, Annaka, Black Authors, Black Voices, Charles Saunders, Chasing Freedom, George Elliott Clarke, Gloria Ann Wesley, Gold, If This is Freedom, Lindsay Ruck, Mayann Francis, Mayann's Train Ride, Nova Scotia, Portia White, Share & Care, Sylvia Parris-Drummond, The Black Battalion, Trudeau, VOICES, Whylah Falls, Winds of Change, Worthy of Love

Maud Lewis’ World on the Page

November 2, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

Carol Bruneau shows the world through renowned folk artist’s eyes Carol Bruneau’s first nine books have all been critically acclaimed, and why not. Her sentences are meticulous, elegant constructions that pile on seemingly ordinary […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 9781771088831, Brighten The Corner Where You Are, Carol Bruneau, fiction, Nimbus Publishing, Nova Scotia

IndigiLit

July 21, 2020 by : Chris Benjamin

Indigenous-authored stories from all genres are a gift

Filed Under: # 91 Spring 2020, Editions, Education, History Tagged With: Catherine Martin, Daniel Paul, Fernwood Publishing, I Lost my Talk, I'm Finding my Talk, Isabelle Knockwood, Leah Rosenmeier, Lesley Choyce, Let Us Remember the Old Mi’kmaq: Mikwite’Imanej Mikmaqi’k, Nimbus Publishing, Out of the Depths, Pauline Young, Pottersfield Press, Rebecca Thomas, The Mi’kmaq Anthology Volume 2, Theresa Meuse, Tim Bernard, To be a Water Protector, We are Not the Savages, Winona LaDuke

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