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Table Manners
Of course, the liveliness of immigrant-family mealtimes is a commonplace, a cliché, the stuff of dull stories, moldy jokes, and so on. If I cherish the cliché, it’s because it contains a mythic sense of communality, which, as a child, I experienced as a duality, almost a contradiction. My parents had left Trinidad when I was a year old, in order to prepare a home for us in Ottawa, and entrusted me to my grandmother.
The most influential cephalometric factors affecting variations in the nasolabial angle: a cross-sectional regression study
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda The most influential cephalometric factors affecting variations in the nasolabial angle: a cross-sectional regression study André Alexis Díaz-Quevedo [1] ; Luis Ernesto Arriola-Guillén [2] [1] Dentist, School of Dentistry, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6156-2646 [2] Ph.D. and Associate Professor of the Division of Orthodontics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú.
14 Canadian books make 2025 Giller Prize longlist
Fourteen books have been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. The 2025 longlist features 12 novels and two short story collections, covering a wide range of subjects, from a 1800s train disaster, to life working in a nail salon and the stories of abducted children in Uganda. It includes three previous winners of the prize. André Alexis won in 2015 for and is now on the list for his short story collection Other Worlds.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, May 16, 2025
This week's newsletter is loaded up with fantastic reading ideas for the longer, sunnier days of springtime. The "varied and insightful" stories in Guadalupe Nettel's The Accidentals follow people "seeking to make connections and right the wrongs of the past." In Intraterrestrials, Karen G. Lloyd provides a "thrilling jaunt" through the subterranean environments where microscopic organisms shape life on earth.
10 Canadian books turning 10 in 2025
Books published in 2015 are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year! Check out this list of 10 Canadian titles celebrating this milestone and see if your favourite classic is featured — or find a new read to add to your collection. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis Fifteen Dogs is a novel by André Alexis. (Coach House Books, Jaime Hogg) In Fifteen Dogs, the Greek gods Hermes and Apollo bet on the outcome of giving animals human consciousness.
A Language of Limbs
Dylin Hardcastle. Dutton, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-85271-2 Hardcastle’s stunning debut follows a 15-year-old girl in 1972 Australia across two alternate timelines: one where she embraces her queerness and one where she rejects it. In the former version, the unnamed narrator is beaten by her father and kicked out of her home after her parents catch her having sex with her best friend.
The Deserters
Mathias Énard, trans. from the French by Charlotte Mandell. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3901-1 This brilliant interlocking diptych from Énard (Compass) begins with a soldier emerging from a battlefield into a nightmarish future. What has become of the world is a mystery, as is the identity of this haunted survivor.
The Remembered Soldier
Anjet Daanje, trans. from the Dutch by David McKay. New Vessel, $20.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-954404-32-8 The phenomenal English-language debut from Daanje weaves an affecting love story through a tangle of memories and dreams. Four years after WWI, amnesiac veteran Noon Merckem lives in a Ghent asylum, where he’s visited by women looking for their husbands who went missing in action. Noon was found with no identity papers and wearing a combination of Flemish, French, and German uniforms.
Fresh, Green Life
Sebastian Castillo. Soft Skull, $16.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-59376-791-4 Castillo (Salmon) skewers various forms of malarkey in this sharp tale of a cerebral man’s quest for self-improvement. The novel opens on December 31 in the wake of a “minor health scare” for truculent narrator Sebastian Castillo, an adjunct writing teacher.
Great Black Hope
Rob Franklin. Summit, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6680-7743-6 In Franklin’s radiant debut, a queer Black man reckons with his class privilege and drug use in the aftermath of his best friend’s mysterious death. David Smith, a 25-year-old tech worker and aspiring writer, is partying with old friends in the Hamptons when he’s arrested for cocaine possession. After returning to his Brooklyn apartment, Smith is jolted by memories of his best friend and roommate’s tragic death three weeks earlier.
Happiness Forever
Adelaide Faith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-60866-8 In Faith’s witty and irreverent debut, a British woman develops an unshakable obsession with her therapist. Sylvie, a veterinarian nurse, scrolled through 23 pages of therapists before choosing the “only one...
The Names
Knapp’s intriguing and nuanced debut comprises three alternate story lines for a British family. After giving birth to a baby boy in 1987, Cora goes to the registry office to record his name. Her abusive husband, Gordon, wants the baby named after himself, her nine-year-old daughter thinks Bear would be a good name, and Cora prefers Julian.
A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
“No objective evidence to suggest this at all,” Jayaram responded. “The only association was Lucy’s presence on the unit at the time.” “So to clarify, was there any suggestion from any of the consultant team that Lucy had been deliberately harming babies?” “We discussed a lot of possibilities in private,” he responded. “So that’s not a yes or no?” “We discussed a lot of possibilities in private,” Jayaram repeated. The hospital upheld Letby’s grievance.
“Consolation,” by André Alexis
Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before. She was in her early eighties and still driving, and, because I am an inveterate back-seat driver, on one of our outings I suggested that she take a road she did not want to take. She resented it, and I could feel her anger growing. When we got to her house, she came at me, all hundred and ten pounds of her, flailing, screaming, and cursing. It was like being assaulted by a very short scarecrow.
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Listen to this story Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before. She was in her early eighties and still driving, and, because I am an inveterate back-seat driver, on one of our outings I suggested that she take a road she did not want to take. …
The Sunriser | Durango college suddenly pulls plug on rare skiing injury database
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 Plus: U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo has a Republican challenger, BLM to raise royalties on oil and gas, and advocacy groups say Colorado’s SNAP program is flawed Danika Worthington + Kevin Jeffers Presentation Editor | Product Team Good morning, Colorado.
“Houyhnhnm,” by André Alexis
My dad, Robert auf der Horst, died seven years ago. He was a successful doctor, and for most of his life he divided the world into two categories: what he thought useful (science) and what he thought frivolous (almost everything else). It wasn’t that he disdained other things—art, for instance. It was that he couldn’t see the point of pretending that knowledge, the fruit of science, was comparable to entertainment. For the most part, we were in agreement about this.
Treasa Levasseur's audiobook picks offer engaging stories for summertime listening
Summertime road trips and staycations are a great opportunity to listen to a good audiobook — maybe a new novel brought to life by an actor, or a meaty nonfiction book with lots of information to digest. As a busy touring musician, The Next Chapter columnist Treasa Levasseur turns to audiobooks while on the road or at home in the kitchen.
The best Canadian fiction of 2021
Here are the picks by CBC Books for the top Canadian fiction of 2021. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise is a novel by Omar El Akkad. (Kateshia Pendergrass, McClelland & Stewart) What Strange Paradise is a novel that tells the story of a global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. Nine-year-old Amir is the only survivor from a ship full of refugees coming to a small island nation. He ends up with a teenage girl named Vanna, who lives on the island.
34 great Canadian books to check out in fall 2021
As the weather gets cooler, warm up with one of these great Canadian books. Satched by Megan Gail Coles Satched is a poetry collection by Megan Gail Coles. (CBC, House of Anansi Press) Named after a local word meaning "soaked through" or "weighed down," Satched is a poetry collection that explores intergenerational trauma, ecological grief and late-stage capitalism from the perspective of a woman of rural-remote, Northern, working class and mixed ancestry.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. 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 NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3. There’s a Ghost in This House, Oliver Jeffers 4. Off the Record, by Peter Mansbridge. 5.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3. There’s a Ghost in This House, Oliver Jeffers 4. Off the Record, by Peter Mansbridge. 5.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3. There’s a Ghost in This House, Oliver Jeffers 4. Off the Record, by Peter Mansbridge. 5.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3. There’s a Ghost in This House, Oliver Jeffers 4. Off the Record, by Peter Mansbridge. 5.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3. There’s a Ghost in This House, Oliver Jeffers 4. Off the Record, by Peter Mansbridge. 5.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Article content NEW RELEASES Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content 1. The Lincoln Highway: A Novel, by Amor Towles. 2. Crossroads: A Novel, Jonathan Franzen 3.
International: 30 bestselling books for the week of Oct. 9
Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Compiled by Bookmanager using weekly sales statistics from over 250 Canadian independent book stores. Author of the article: Aleesha Harris International bestsellers. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
34 great Canadian books to check out in fall 2021
As the weather gets cooler, warm up with one of these great Canadian books. Ring by André Alexis Ring is a novel by André Alexis. (Coach House Books, Jaime Hogge) Ring completes the quincunx of Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning writer André Alexis. When Helen Odhiambo Lloyd senses that her daughter Gwenhwyfar is in love, Helen gives her a ring that has been passed down for generations. The ring lets the bearer change three things about her beloved. It's a blessing, but also a curse.
Ring
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PT 2: Black Canadian writers on finding 'home' in their work
What kinds of responsibility does a Black writer have? Is it enough to just write whatever inspires you, or is there an obligation to take on the big questions of culture, class, colour? In this two-part series, we hear from Black Canadian writers about the politics of everyday life and art. From left to right: writers George Elliott Clarke, Afua Cooper and André Alexis — all featured guests in our two-part series, Behind the Lines.
Home Sweet Unhomely
At first, Geoffrey Morehouse, a federal clerk in the 1980s, resists the occult contagion that has overtaken his cubicle-hived floor at Transport Canada. His fellow bureaucrats have been voraciously reading a mysterious red book, with troubling results. They have begun speaking in fragments, omitting the words “I,” “eye,” and “aye,” and sticking out their tongues. The pressure to conform mounts. Everyone else has read the book — why not Geoffrey? Is being lizard-like really so bad?
New Releases: October 2020
Each month we are proud to feature new novels, short story collections and graphic novels being published in Canada. Up until today, we referred to this initiative as Crazy for CanLit but it has been brought to our attention that this nomenclature has offended some people. This was never our intention. As of today, we will be referring to this initiative as Craving CanLit and hope that you will join the conversation using #CravingCanLit on your social media posts.
The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction | Quill and Quire
by André Alexis The epigraph to André Alexis’s novella, “A,” first published in 2013, is by Margaret Laurence: “Then things become all at once strange.” It’s a fitting sentiment given Alexis’s penchant to allow his fiction to drift into the dreamlike, bizarre, or uncanny.
Britney Spears asks court to curb father's power over her
Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press Published Tuesday, August 18, 2020 4:36PM EDT LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears on Tuesday asked a court to keep her father from reasserting the broad control over her life and career that he has had for most of the past 12 years.
GO Transit to increase service in September as more riders return
The Canadian Press Published Monday, August 17, 2020 3:17PM EDT TORONTO - Metrolinx says it will increase service in September on GO Transit routes as part of the reopening of Ontario. The company says the changes on its rail and bus lines are the most significant in its history. Metrolinx says service will change on most of its routes as schools and workplaces reopen. It says there is an increasing number of customers returning to transit.
Suspicious package reported in Yorkville
Toronto police have neutralized a suspicious package found in the Yorkville area Monday afternoon. At around 1 a.m., police responded to reports of an unidentified package near Avenue Road and Webster Avenue. A chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive team attended the scene to neutralize the item. It is unknown what the suspicious package contained. Driver's and pedestrians are being asked to avoid the area. Road closures from Avenue Rd. to Davenport Rd to Webster Ave.
Horwath uses school bus to demonstrate safety concerns with Ford government’s back-to-school plan
NDP leader Andrea Horwath brought a school bus to Queen’s Park on Monday to demonstrate concerns about physical distancing once students go back to school next month. “We’re asking Mr. Ford to step up to the plate,” Horwath said at a press conference. “Not to just cross your fingers and hope for the best but to step up and act to make sure that classrooms are safe.” Students have been out of school since in-class learning stopped in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some residents asked to shelter in place due to gas leak in city's east end
Chris Fox, CP24.com Published Monday, August 17, 2020 11:43AM EDT Residents in a neighbourhood in the city’s east end are being asked to shelter in place due to a gas leak that has resulted in the closure of several major streets.
Hit-and-run collision in Markham captured on video
Chris Fox, CP24.com Published Monday, August 17, 2020 11:21AM EDT Police have released new video footage that shows a vehicle slamming into the side of a SUV in Markham over the weekend and then fleeing the scene. The hit-and-run took place near Markham Road and 14th Avenue at around noon on Saturday. In the 16-second video released by police on Monday, the suspect vehicle can be seen leaving a parking lot and turning left onto Markham Road.
$16.5M settlement in class action lawsuit over mass arrests at 2010 G20 summit
Police make arrests during a mass kettling at Queen and Spadina during the G20 Summit in Toronto on June 27, 2010. CITYNEWS/Michael Talbot A $16.5 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over mass arrests at the 2010 G20 summit. The agreement comes after 10 years of court proceedings and negotiations between the Toronto Police Services Board and representatives for about 1,100 people who were arrested during the summit.
Ontario reports 99 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
Ontario health officials reported 99 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Monday, the highest since Saturday when the count of new cases hit triple digits. "Locally, 29 of 34 public health units are reporting five or fewer cases, with 21 of them reporting no new cases," Health Minister Christine Elliott wrote in a tweet. The province reported 81 new cases on Sunday, 106 on Saturday and 92 on Friday. Elliott said that provincial labs processed more than 25,000 test specimens in the past 24 hours.
The home front: Virus stalks nurses after they leave work
by Stefanie Dazio, The Associated Press Posted Aug 17, 2020 10:02 am EDT Last Updated Aug 17, 2020 at 10:08 am EDT Healthcare professionals including Dr. Michael Katz, left, turn a COVID-19 patient over onto his back at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif., Friday, July 10, 2020. The pandemic rages on and cases climb throughout California, once again one of the nation's hot spots. The nurses forge ahead.
US approves oil, gas leasing plan for Alaska Wildlife refuge
by Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press Posted Aug 17, 2020 10:06 am EDT Last Updated Aug 17, 2020 at 10:08 am EDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Department of the Interior on Monday approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the sprawling home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife.
Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast
BEIRUT — The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported. The investigation is focused on why nearly 3,000 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate was being stored at the city’s port. The ignition of the stockpile caused an explosion that tore through the capital, killing at least 180 people and wounding 6,000. Thirty people are still missing after the Aug.
Materials sector boosts S&P/TSX composite, U.S. stock markets edge higher
TORONTO — The mining-heavy materials sector led Canada’s main stock index higher in early trading as the price of gold also moved up. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 141.13 points at 16,655.74. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 11.41 points at 27,942.43. The S&P 500 index was up 11.96 points at 3,384.81, while the Nasdaq composite was up 67.07 points at 11,086.37. The Canadian dollar traded for 75.67 cents US compared with 75.47 cents US on Friday.
Work at Suncor's Fort McMurray base plant affected until September due to fire
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. says it will be early September before mined bitumen production resumes at its base plant mining operation in Fort McMurray, Alta. The Calgary-based company has released an update on operations at the plant in the wake of a fire in the extraction area of the plant on Aug. 14. Suncor says the fire was contained quickly, extinguished several hours later and no one was hurt.
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