To the Forest by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (translated by Rhonda Mullins) Coach House Books 194 pages $24 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s autobiographical novel, To the Forest, is one of the few good things to come out of COVID-19. The narrator flees Montreal with her...
Chores by Maggie Burton Breakwater Books 64 pages $20 In the world of Maggie Burton's Chores, the tedious task can become something deep and fascinating. Chores is a collection of semi autobiographical freeverse poetry from multidisciplinary artist Maggie Burton....
Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman by JD Derbyshire Goose Lane Editions 224 pages $24 In Mercy Gene: The Man-Made Making of a Mad Woman, Vancouver-based artist-activist JD Derbyshire shares stories based on their own life, focalizing experiences of the...
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki Drawn & Quarterly 444 pages $40 Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki, the award-winning dynamic duo behind Skim and This One Summer, have teamed up again to explore the in-between space of adolescence and adulthood....
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Arsenal Pulp Press 288 pages $23 Any Other City, the second novel from Vancouverite Hazel Jane Plante, doesn’t look like a novel. It looks like a memoir—the memoir of transgender rock star, Tracy St. Cyr. Over her memoir’s A and B...
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt Greystone Books 312 pages $35 The weight of Angela Sterritt’s new memoir, Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls, will sit...
This late summer, we're sitting with "Heat, Body, Horror" by Dina Abdulhadi from our upcoming Room 47.3 Bodies, now available for pre-order! Heatwaves in spring, deathfalls in autumn marathons. I fry eggplant in its skin, baked again with tomato, breaking down...
This sweltering summer, we're sweating it out with "Summer of the Twist" by Kaija Pepper from our upcoming Room 47.3 Bodies, now available for pre-order! One hot August afternoon in 1964, heading to the park for a game of tetherball, we got to talking about the twist,...
When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser Arsenal Pulp Press 184 pages $23 Memoir, by definition, is a genre of literature based on memory. So, what happens when a writer’s memories, their primary source material, are erased? In When My Ghost Sings, writer Tara Sidhoo...
Wifehood by Caitlin McKenzie Ethel Micropress 32 pages $10 Deceptively simple, beautifully balanced, and structurally near-infinite: Barrie, Ontario poet Caitlin McKenzie’s first chapbook charts what it means to be a wife after growing up within a shattered parental...
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ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
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ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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