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The Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020

Every year, the reviewers and editors at the Globe and Mail put together their list of notable books called The Globe 100 and we’re so happy to see some of our titles were included! Congratulations to our creators!

The Magic Fish By Trung Le Nguyen 256 Pages | Ages 12+ | Hardcover ISBN 9780593125298 | Random House Graphic Real life isn’t a fairytale. But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It’s hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn’t even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he’s going through? Is there a way to tell them he’s gay? A beautifully illustrated story by Trung Le Nguyen that follows a young boy as he tries to navigate life through fairytales, an instant classic that shows us how we are all connected.

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Https://ismailimail.blog, book reviews | the globe and mail arts staff writers recommend three new books including ayaz pirani’s “how beautiful people are”.

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June 29, 2022 : The Globe and Mail Arts staff recommend short and sweet summer reads.

How Beautiful People Are by Ayaz Pirani (Gordon Hill Press) – review by Rukhsar Ali

For those who answer, “Where are you from?” with an asterisked half-truth, you will find comfort in the in-between space where Ayaz Pirani’s newest collection of poetry digs in its roots. Animated through the character of Kabir from Pirani’s past work, How Beautiful People Are embodies love and loss, and longing and belonging all at once, journeying the reader through the complexity of the human condition and the dynamism of identity.

Written with allusions to the diwan (collection) of ginan and granth literature from the Indian subcontinent, the collection is unapologetic in its origins while simultaneously exploring the question of its postcolonial existence. Pirani’s speaker restlessly rustles the definitions of home through the book’s pages to find familiarity “on the last leg of / someone else’s journey.” But the task isn’t quite so simple, because “Once you leave the village / there’s no road back.”

Drawing from his own hyphenated identity, the poet, born in Tanzania and raised in Canada, snapshots moments in time in short, and often snappy, poems that revel in nuance in a world where “Nuance is heading for the door.” At times crisp and poignant, eccentric and whimsical, the poetry collection is an intergenerational garden where definitions of home rendezvous in cleverly structured poems on the page.

How Beautiful People Are is a mosaic of experiences, memories and tradition where these facets of being interplay. It’s a quick read that’ll leave you asking questions about origin and humanity, and a sense of comfort in not having all the answers.

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About the author Ayaz Pirani was born in Tanzania and studied Humanities in Toronto and Montreal. His degree is from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His books include Happy You Are Here , Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets , and Bachelor of Art . His work has recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine , The Antigonish Review , The Malahat Review , and Guest 16 .

Additional book reviews by The Globe and Mail Arts staff writers : Tides by Sara Freeman (Penguin Random House Canada) – review by Marsha Lederman : Tides begins with a woman on a long bus journey out, heading toward the sea. Who she is and why she’s leaving slowly unfold, revealed in bits and pieces in brief segments à la Jenny Offill. The segments can be as brief as a single sentence, but through each, the bitter onion of this woman’s life is unpeeled, and the reader begins to understand. Read full review at The Global and Mail

Good Girl by Anna Fitzpatrick (Flying Books) – review by Rebecca Tucker : Lucy Selberg, the protagonist of Toronto writer Anna Fitzpatrick’s debut novel, Good Girl , is a 25-year-old writer and bookseller also living in Toronto. After she meets Henry, a man with whom she’s able to explore her interest in kink (specifically, her interest in BDSM), Lucy finds herself also exploring, essentially, how to be the right kind of person – the right kind of colleague, the right kind of friend, the right kind of lover, the right kind of feminist, the right kind of writer. How to be good. Read full review at The Global and Mail

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Globe and Mail reviews Albatross

Posted August 19, 2019 by Terry Fallis

It’s always nice to make the Globe and Mail! The takeaway line for me in this mini-review:

“This novel has a fable-like quality and philosophical depths that Fallis plumbs with a deceptive subtlety.”

Having seldom been known for being either deceptive or subtle in my writing, I’m very happy with this. It’s still early days, but I’m pleased with how everything is unfolding since the launch of Albatross less than a week ago.

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The theme of the book is fabricated fear. The Senate nixes defence project “Dumbo,” which kills a lucrative defence project for Groepping-Sprunt.

Firm CEO Chick Devlin instructs Bird to grow American fears about China so Groepping-Sprunt can get funding for another top-secret U.S. defence system. Enter Ann Coulter-inspired Angel Templeton, a sexy, military-minded woman with a PhD, an eight-year-old child and a closet full of miniskirts.

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Christopher Moore set out to write about the colour blue in his “Comedy d’Art,”  Sacré Bleu .

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Netanyahu came to Congress with little to offer to Israelis or Americans

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on July 24. Julia Nikhinson/The Associated Press

R. David Harden is the former assistant administrator at USAID’s bureau for democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance, former USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza, and former senior adviser to president Barack Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned this week in Washington as a grand performative gesture to shore up his political base in Israel. He made history as the first leader to address a joint session of Congress four times , surpassing the British prime minister Winston Churchill, architect of the Allied victory in the Second World War.

Mr. Netanyahu expected to bask in an Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden, make amends with former president Donald Trump, and demonstrate to Israelis, Americans and the global community his stature as an elder statesman secure in his leadership and vision for Israel in the generation ahead.

Instead, he found an America largely disinterested in his visit and distracted by its own political drama after Mr. Trump’s near-assassination, Mr. Biden’s withdrawal from the election campaign, and Vice-President Kamala Harris’s likely Democratic nomination for president.

Mr. Netanyahu had hoped for compelling political theatre in Congress. Instead, Ms. Harris declined to preside over the joint meeting of Congress, citing a conflict with a scheduled campaign speech in Indianapolis. Mr. Netanyahu missed having the visuals of the Vice-President and the potential next president standing behind him repeatedly applauding his speech. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not shake hands with the Prime Minister, and Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance, too, was on the campaign trail.

Mr. Netanyahu will, however, get his White House meeting today – with a President now unburdened from electoral politics and with a deep memory of Mr. Netanyahu’s lack of gratitude for this administration’s controversial but unwavering support for Israel. Ms. Harris will meet with Mr. Netanyahu today as well – but she does not have a long-standing relationship with the Israeli Prime Minister. She also represents a party where roughly half of its caucus boycotted the speech. On Friday, Mr. Netanyahu will travel to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Mr. Trump, who made the explicit point of posting on his Truth Social account a warm letter from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

In his speech, Mr. Netanyahu forcefully defended Israel – and he did it in a way that is effective to Americans. He spoke in a carefully bipartisan manner, he invoked Biblical history, referred to those protesting the Israel-Hamas war as useful idiots, referenced Sept. 11th, and alluded to his time as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ironically, given this historic moment, Mr. Netanyahu entered the halls of Congress with nothing substantive to offer to Israelis, Americans, or the world. He failed to free the remaining hostages, has not signed a ceasefire deal, has not defeated Hamas, and has not set out a meaningful “day after” plan for Gaza.

In his hour-long speech, Mr. Netanyahu was clear in his requests to the American audience, however. He proposed an American-led, anti-Iranian alliance, which he coined the Abraham Alliance , designed to confront Iran directly. Mr. Netanyahu also demanded that the U.S. speed up its weapon delivery. Yet with nothing in hand, Mr. Netanyahu will also likely get nothing in return – other than a few photo-ops and 52 standing ovations.

As Mr. Netanyahu landed in the U.S., nearly three dozen of Israel’s highest-ranking former intelligence and defence officials, diplomats, a Nobel laureate and private-sector leaders wrote to Congress to express their grave concern that Mr. Netanyahu’s continued leadership represented an existential threat to Israel . The Prime Minister returns to Jerusalem this weekend to a nation deeply divided, with mass protests calling for a hostage deal and uncertainty as to whether the ultra-orthodox community will heed the call to serve in the Israel Defence Forces. Audiences in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, along the northern border with Lebanon and close to Gaza will not give standing ovations to the Prime Minister.

Mr. Netanyahu, however, did score one notable outcome: He will likely survive politically until at least the end of the year, given that the Knesset goes on a three-month recess next week. As Prime Minister, Mr. Netanyahu can likely continue to delay his criminal trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. While the hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, Mr. Netanyahu was able to secure his own position a bit longer.

The news cycle moves fast in Washington. By Wednesday evening, major media outlets were focusing on Mr. Biden’s historic Oval Office speech where he passed the torch of leadership to the next generation. Mr. Netanyahu’s trip will quickly become nothing more than an afterthought, simply yesterday’s news. The tragedy of the region, however, lingers on, fostering grievances that will last generations.

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