★ Transit

Canadian-born, U.K.-based Rachel Cusk, author of eight previous novels and three memoirs, has become one of our most astute writers, gaining steady recognition and a couple of literary prizes along the way. Her latest book is ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Exo

By Fonda Lee

Fonda Lee’s Exo takes place in a distant future, on a dramatically altered Earth that’s been colonized by an alien species, the Zhree. The war that led to the colonization ended a century ago and ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Futures

By Anna Pitoniak

Random House editor Anna Pitoniak, born in Whistler but now based in New York, makes a strong literary debut with The Futures, a novel that follows a young couple in their 20s as they take ... Read More »

February 22, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Goat

By Anne Fleming

Short-story author and poet Anne Fleming’s first run at children’s fiction is a quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to deftly veil much deeper issues and themes. A story about a goat roaming ... Read More »

February 22, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power

By Joseph Tohill (ed.); Louis Hyman (ed.)

We may easily feel a sense of worthiness as consumers when we purchase a product that we are told will, say, help fund research toward a cure for cancer. But how do we know our ... Read More »

February 22, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dominion

By Shane Arbuthnott

Molly Stout lives in a world that is either a polluted dystopian future with King George V on the British throne; the Victorian past with a steampunk twist and lots of rivets but no electronics; ... Read More »

February 21, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Nightingale Won’t Let You Sleep

By Steven Heighton

Varosha is a real place that reads like a dream-world. Once a luxurious resort town within the Greek-Cypriot city of Famagusta, it has, since the 1974 Turkish invasion, become a ghost town, abandoned, fenced in, ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saying Good-bye to London

By Julie Burtinshaw

It’s a classic story: Boy meets girl at a dance; boy and girl get hot and heavy for a while; boy and girl break up. In Julie Burtinshaw’s Saying Good-bye to London, the boy (Francis) ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Men Walking on Water

By Emily Schultz

Humans are doomed to want what they can’t have. Which is why pursuing the forbidden is one of the oldest yet ripest genres of story we’ve got, from Adam and Eve swiping the apple on ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death in the Family

By John Chipman

When the wheels of justice grind slowly, the process can seem interminable and destructive. This is especially true in cases where justice is being miscarried. By the time Tammy Marquardt had been exonerated in the ... Read More »

February 13, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Science, Technology & Environment

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