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Need to get lost in a book these days? Heres the best kind of spring bouquet: an assortment of fresh paperbacks, all recommended. "Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might

Some of the books we enjoyed most this year. 

From piercing studies of colonialism to powerful domestic sagas and all points in between, our panel of writers share their favourite titles of 2021

The US novelist chooses her favourite reads

Spiral Jetty, 2018. (Photo by Adam Gray / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) One of the more tragic errors of our time is our ready conflation of what is iconic with what is well branded. In an effort at bypassing the difficult work of becoming someone, many of today’s would-be writers, artists, and thinkers opt to present themselves as walking pitch decks, glomming onto a marketable persona and riding it as hard and far as they can. Our moment’s lack of nuance is frequently bemoaned, but wh...

At first glance, it is difficult to detect a strong thread linking the essays in Rachel Kushner’s new book, The Hard Crowd.

Author of the article: Jon Roe Publishing date: May 20, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  2 minute read  •  A still from Poppie Nongena, which opens the inaugural Calgary Black Film Festival. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Jann Arden is going big for her return to online concerts on Thursday. Pre-recorded in Vancouver, it will fea...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Jon Wiener: The Palestinian refugee camp you wrote about in The Hard Crowd, Shuafat, is not in Gaza, or Southern Lebanon; it’s inside Jerusalem. You visited in 2016 when something called the Knife Inti...

‘The Hard Crowd’ Reveals Rachel Kushners Literary Life Through Death Her latest book, a collection of 19 essays that spans art criticism, journalism and memoir, is an exhaustive examination of what it means to write ‘Neither tragic nor legendary, I myself will never die,’ writes Rachel Kushner in ‘Made to Burn’. She means that no one will write about her death. Her subjects, though – the rough-housers, activists, nihilists and stoics that people her first nonfic...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 7, 2021 475 There are so many new books featuring sisters and many of them are getting great reviews. I felt the need to make a list! Many of these titles are fairly new; there are of course, a few classics. The list is mostly fiction, with a couple of non-fiction titles thrown in; and mostly adult titles, with a few young adult and young reader titles also included. Please enjoy! Alphabetically by title: “Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)” by Beverly Clear...