Ayah Victoria McKhail

Maria João Maciel Jorge’s The Hyphen is a poignant exploration of Portuguese Canadian identity. In eighteen short essays, she takes the reader to Faial, her home island in the Azores, and Toronto, where she arrived at the age of eighteen. She is interested in cultural duality and the way it complicates her sense of…

On a recent Sunday afternoon, my doorstep became a veritable pulpit. A gentleman had arrived, unannounced, inviting me to worship at a local Baptist church. I listened intently as he sought to enlighten me. He spoke at length. He gestured with zeal. He handed me a detailed pamphlet. And he asked me if I was sure I’d be going to heaven one…

Described as “a love letter to Jerusalem,” the historically significant The Bells of Memory: A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem chronicles the life of someone raised in the holy city during the period of political upheaval that led to the establishment of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine on May …