As we consider the role of humour in revealing life's absurdities and challenging power, we’re sitting with "The Durian Demon," a new fiction piece by Room 48.1 Wits End's commissioned writer, Lydia Kwa. The Durian Demon Lydia Kwa It could use a decent...
What is the relationship between translation and resistance? In this interview, former member of Room's collective, Tamara Jong, speaks to author Yilin Wang about translating poetry, celebrating meaning, and more. Yilin Wang 王艺霖 is a writer, poet, editor and...
We know that rest is essential for our well-being and for staying grounded in the vital work of resistance and transformation, yet it’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of constant motion. Room staff and editors shared the following practices to support you in...
We continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”. In this moment of crucial conversations in “CanLit,” we find it instructive to look to movements like...
Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele Invisible Publishing 272 pages $16.95 “The Port Peter peaches lure tourists,” begins Sydney Hegele’s debut novel, Bird Suit, and their hypnotic writing lures readers into this sickly-sweet saga just as effectively. Nestled on the shores of...
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber Book*hug Press 146 pages $23 Adrienne Gruber’s memoir-in-essays cracks open the institution of motherhood with a deeply personal exploration of her own experience. Each of the collection’s...
I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu Coach House Books 72 pages $24 Following her award-winning debut poetry collection POP, Montreal-based poet Simina Banu’s signature blend of pop culture, illustration, and poignant portrayal of life’s struggles continues in I Will...
Good Want by Domenica Martinello Coach House Books 109 pages $24 Domenica Martinello’s Good Want lies in the chasms separating good from bad, speech from silence, and faith from disbelief, producing a meditative collection of poems that gets to the core of desire as a...
Splinter & Shard: Stories by Lulu Keating ECW Press 192 pages $25 Splinter & Shard: Stories by Canadian author and award-winning TV and film director, Lulu Keating, is her debut collection of short stories about the human experience, in which she translates...
If you're writing and creating art during this time of rest and reflection, we've got you! Calls for submission: Artists Room Magazine | Art and photos for Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest | Ongoing Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing Maisonneuve | Comics | Ongoing...
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.
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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