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Summer’s a great time to catch up on your favourite beach reads — easy, breezy books that can be devoured in a day. But diehard book nerds know fall’s the time when the most anticipated titles of the year typically drop — from the latest in literary fiction to biographies, historical tomes, memoirs and more. Here are 20 titles — 10 fiction, 10 non-fiction — to watch for in the coming months from local, national and international authors. NON-FICTION Everything and Nothing at All: Essays By Jenny Heijun Wills (Knopf, Aug. 27) The Winnipeg-based author of the memoir Older Sister. […]

There are plenty of tasty options out there for those who are craving a red wine in warmer temps that don’t involve big oak, heavy tannins or searing alcohol levels.

Zan Lazarevic / Unsplash For summer sipping, it’s hard to beat a well-chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc. Sure, Pinot Grigio is light and fresh, but it often lacks the lively, vibrant fruit flavours an...

The “pretendian” phenomenon — someone falsely claiming Indigenous heritage and appropriating Indigenous culture, often for their own benefit, financial or otherwise — has been making headlines recentl...

Here are reviews of a half-dozen wines I’ve recently tasted and enjoyed — some falling under the “Wines of Europe” umbrella (Italy in particular), others coming from new world wine-producing countries…

When the Winnipeg Wine Festival rolled out its full slate of events (the more intimate “Wine Down” ancillary events and the behemoth weekend public tastings) in January, it all felt a little bit… weird.

Once upon a time, Heather O’Neill wrote a fairy tale about Sofia, a teenage girl in a fictional, occupied European country, as she and her travelling companion, a talking goose, walked the countryside in hopes of retrieving her mother’s lost manuscript, which would hopefully save their homeland. The result is The Capital of Dreams, the Montreal-based O’Neill’s latest novel.

We’ve been getting decent daytime temps and plenty of sun as of late. But Manitoba’s cooler nights — and the pile of tomatoes and squash on my kitchen counter, frantically picked from the backyard gar...

The launch of the Søbr Market two years ago transformed the non-alcoholic drinks landscape in Manitoba in a profound way.

What began as columns penned for the Free Press on the complexities of Winnipeg —its good, bad and in-between — has led to Niigaan Sinclair winning the Governor-General’s Literary Awards prize for non...