In honour of Black History Month, we’re highlighting Amazon Canada First Novel Award Winner Jasmine Sealy’s (Jasmine Sealy ) THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING, an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family who run a beachfront hotel.

The devastating Israeli airstrikes that killed World Central Kitchen personnel yesterday bring the number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196 – including more than 175 members of our own United Nations staff. This is unconscionable.

It causes me sheer mental desperation to note that amidst the sustained starvation and obliteration of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, some people draw their moral line at the killing of Europeans.

Here is tomorrow's (4/4/24) front-page from The Independent:

i’ve just turned down the pen/dau prize, in solidarity with palestine + the protest against pen america’s refusal to take a clear, principled stance on the israeli genocide against the palestinian people

Hogan's Alley Society has acquired The Brickhouse development site in Vancouver's Chinatown. This site at the Main & Union streets corner previously saw an 11-storey mixed-use building approval. #ChinatownYVR #vanpoli #vanre #vancre dailyhive.com/vancouver/796-…

Happy publication day, Conor Kerr! Alicia Elliott says: “Searing yet compassionate…Conor Kerr’s Prairie Edge is both a marvel of storytelling and a devastating critique of activists who care more about building their brands than taking care of their kin.”

"10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned. This devastating differentiated impact continues to make the war on Gaza also a war on women." -UN Women unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

this is so shameful, also predictably embarrassing to see so many of the people who yell the loudest about free speech & cancel culture cheering on this blatant act of discrimination because they're triggered by a piece of cloth.

Zadie Smith argues that protest slogans are “weapons of mass destruction” in a new pretentious and navel-gazing article and she does it while a literal genocide ravages Gaza. I am sick of ignorant and tone-deaf writers who feel like they can lecture us from their lavish homes.

The "evacuation" of Rafah is illegal. There are no "humanitarian" or "safe zones." Civilians are being forcibly displaced to areas totally unsuitable to human habitation. This is a crime against humanity.

This is what happening right now. This is going to have lasting impacts on University of Alberta as people around the world watch the brutality you inflicted on your students by sending riot cops on them.

Please join us in welcoming Zoya Shepherd as the new Design Director at The Walrus. Zoya comes to us with over 10 years of experience in design and art direction and managing large teams and multimedia projects across print, digital, and social media. Welcome to the team, Zoya!

Yesterday at the People's Circle for Palestine at University of Toronto, a woman carrying an Israeli flag pulled out a knife as someone tried to stop her from ripping down banners from the fence As far as witnesses saw, police did not arrest her, take her knife, or trespass her from the space

to believe a literary award is "not a political tool" than you have to believe that literature is not political. in this case, you also have to believe that it's possible for the activities that generate money (like weapons manufacturing) are politically neutral

#LetItGo by Chelene Knight, #TheIslandOfForgetting by Jasmine Sealy, #InvisibleBoy by Harrison Mooney 🫥, and #GardenOfLostSocks by Esi Edugyan (illust by Amelie Dubois) have been shortlisted for the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Awards! Congratulations to all!

#TheIslandOfForgetting by Jasmine Sealy, #InvisibleBoy by Harrison Mooney 🫥, and #TheGardenOfLostSocks by Esi Edugyan (illust by Amelie Dubois) have won Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Awards! Congratulations to our authors and illustrator!

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. Read our new cover story now: trib.al/14EyFWS

Ryu Spaeth This time, he lays forth the case that the Israeli occupation is a moral crime, one that has been all but covered up by the West. He writes, “I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel.” trib.al/14EyFWS

The PM of Barbados followed the PM of Israel in addressing the United Nations.