★ Zolitude

Given how often the stories in Paige Cooper’s debut feature solitary characters flailing for connection, readers might be forgiven for assuming the title is just some kind of clever millennial distortion of the English word ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Day with Yayah

By Julie Flett (ill.); Nicola I. Campbell

“Yayah, what are they called in our language?” asks the children on the first page of A Day with Yayah, pointing to trees and plants while on a family gathering excursion. This radiant picture book, ... Read More »

January 24, 2018 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Ice Chips and the Magical Rink

By Kerry MacGregor; Kim Smith (ill.); Roy MacGregor

Best friends Lucas, Edge, Swift, and Crunch are huge hockey fans whose beloved local skating rink might shut down because of equipment problems. They take what they think will be their last skate at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Sparks!

By Ian Boothby; Nina Matsumoto (ill.)

August and Charlie are two cats who meet as fellow prisoners in a secret animal testing laboratory, and later live together in a house with a sentient robot that also serves as a kitty litter ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ This Is All a Lie

By Thomas Trofimuk

Readers will notice something amiss from the very opening of This Is All a Lie, the new novel from Edmonton writer Thomas Trofimuk. It might be that the first page is numbered 320, with the ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Three Pleasures

By Terry Watada

The internment of more than 21,000 Japanese-Canadians, most of them in B.C., during the Second World War is a known but largely under-acknowledged black mark in Canada’s history. Justified by the War Measures Act and ... Read More »

January 22, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove and the Art of Resistance

By Will Aitken

Among the great Greek tragedies, perhaps no other has spawned as many successful adaptations and critical reflections as Sophocles’s Antigone. Novelist Will Aitken reminds readers why Antigone remains such a universally accessible play in this ... Read More »

January 18, 2018 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Strangers: The Reckoner, Book 1

By David A. Robertson

Cole Harper – the protagonist of David A. Robertson’s impressive new novel for young adults – hasn’t returned to Wounded Sky First Nation in almost a decade. A high school senior in Winnipeg, with a ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen

By Deborah Hopkinson; Qin Leng (ill.)

The rituals of courtship and village life are at the heart of two new swoon-worthy picture books – one about finding joy and bliss in the everyday, and the other, a loving, biographical ode to ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By Carys Cragg

“The world stops caring, and we all fall down.” This sentiment lies at the heart of Carys Cragg’s gripping and immersive memoir, Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father. ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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