Set alternately in a city crumbling into cavernous disparity between rich and poor, and on an island characterized by hardscrabble…Read More »
September 27, 2013 at 05:37pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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The most frightening aspect of apocalyptic stories is not the means by which the world will end, but the fact…Read More »
March 19, 2013 at 10:10am | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
As someone raised in a working-class household, it’s rare for me to read CanLit that evokes the street I grew…Read More »
March 12, 2013 at 08:14am | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Paul Auslander was five years old in 1944 when the Nazis occupied his hometown of Karcag, Hungary. Along with his…Read More »
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In the introduction to Archive of the Undressed, Jeanette Lynes explains that the “triggering muse” for this new book of…Read More »
January 3, 2013 at 11:28am | Filed under: Poetry
At what should be the height of the NHL season, two Canadian publishers have released young adult books aimed at…Read More »
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In the latest issue of the recently reanimated magazine The Baffler, Steve Almond takes aim at Jon Stewart and Stephen…Read More »
December 10, 2012 at 10:33am | Filed under: Reference
It’s been more than a decade since Polly Horvath’s Everything on a Waffle introduced the world to 11-year-old Primrose Squarp…Read More »
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It’s not just free candy and costumes that spur kids to start getting excited about Halloween sometime in mid-January, it’s…Read More »
October 18, 2012 at 03:02pm | Filed under:
There is a lot about school that is curious, as Zander Sherman outlines in his provocative examination of the history…Read More »
August 27, 2012 at 02:15pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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