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...