January 29, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
RECORDING HISTORY Judging from media reviews coming out of the U.K., expectations were low for John Lydon’s autobiography Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (HarperCollins Canada), but it appears that the former Sex Pistol ... Read More »
HEALTH INSPECTION Chronic insomniac RM Vaughan put his bleary hours to good use with Bright Eyed: Insomnia and Its Cultures (Coach House Books), observing how our productivity-obsessed, sleep-deprived lifestyle affects creativity. Is it possible to ... Read More »
January 28, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
In Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? (Viking Canada), health science expert and confessed pop-culture fan Timothy Caulfield draws from data and personal field research (including the set of American Idol) to explore how celebrity ... Read More »
January 27, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
AN ARTFUL LIFE An accompanying catalogue for a joint exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British ... Read More »
January 26, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
LIFE AFTER SEVEN The Seven Series and its follow-up, Seven Sequels, have been smash hits for Orca Book Publishers. Two of the contributing authors have titles out with the publisher this spring. Sigmund Brouwer takes ... Read More »
January 23, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview
POETS, MAN When it comes to Canadian children’s poetry, you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger name than Dennis Lee. On the heels of the 40th anniversary of Alligator Pie, Lee will release his first ... Read More »
January 22, 2015 | Filed under: Children's publishing, Preview
D&Q AT 25 This year, the great Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly turns 25, and to celebrate, it has commissioned a retrospective anthology featuring some of the house’s most enduring work. Edited by D&Q creative ... Read More »
January 20, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
A RETURN TO THE FORM Saskatchewan author Guy Vanderhaeghe is probably best known for his epic Western trilogy of historical novels, which includes The Englishman’s Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man. The first ... Read More »
January 15, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
SETTING THE STAGE A misremembered anecdote concerning the writer Simone de Beauvoir served as the genesis for Jane Urquhart’s ninth novel. When de Beauvoir was in the process of leaving her American lover, Nelson Algren, ... Read More »
January 15, 2015 | Filed under: Preview
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at fall’s most anticipated titles. Here are six highlights in fiction, non-fiction, and international titles. SHORT FICTION: ALICE MUNRO AND MARGARET ATWOOD When Alice Munro won last year’s ... Read More »
August 14, 2014 | Filed under: Preview