The Dhow House

“Everywhere we go broadcasts a message, a current of meaning,” observes Rebecca Laurelson, the protagonist of Jean McNeil’s tense and atmospheric new novel, The Dhow House. “Here,” she continues, “it has something to do with ... Read More »

March 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Triangle

By Jon Klassen (ill.); Mac Barnett

Though Caldecott medal darlings Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen’s third collaboration (the first in a planned trilogy) gives initial signs of being an earnest tale about embracing difference, it soon reveals itself to be a ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hope Has Two Daughters

By Monia Mazigh; Fred A. Reed (trans.)

Monia Mazigh’s debut work of fiction, a novel in stories called Mirrors and Mirages (which was nominated in its original French version for the 2012 Trillium Book Award), was about young Muslim women in Canada ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Under the Umbrella

By Catherine Buquet; Marion Arbona (ill.); Erin Woods (trans.)

If the National Film Board of Canada has not already grabbed the film rights to Catherine Buquet and Marion Arbona’s first picture-book collaboration, they should do so right away. The book’s slight-but-heartwarming story, expressionistic visuals, ... Read More »

March 1, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Transit

By Rachel Cusk

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

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