Do Not Say We Have Nothing

There is so much going on in Madeleine Thien’s third novel that it’s hard, at times, to keep things straight. Nevertheless, the book is worth the effort because of the richness of detail the author ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All the World a Poem

By Gilles Tibo; Erin Woods (trans.); Manon Gauthier (illus.)

Gilles Tibo was already a well-loved children’s illustrator when he turned his hand to writing, and he has been prolific and successful in both fields. In his engaging new picture book, he celebrates his love ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Spawning Grounds

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fire is the element that threatens the people and land of south-central B.C.’s Thompson-Shuswap region in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s 2007 novel, Turtle Valley. The author’s latest book is set in the same landscape, but this time ... Read More »

July 18, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

By Russell A. Potter

For most people, the announcement in 2014 by then prime minister Stephen Harper that a Parks Canada–led expedition to the Canadian Arctic had discovered the wreck of the HMS Erebus, one of the two ships ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: History

Detached

By Christina Kilbourne

Ontario author Christina Kilbourne’s 2007 book, Dear Jo, was about Internet predators. Her latest novel also tackles some serious themes, primarily depression and suicide. Detached tells the story of Anna, a talented teenaged artist who ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

America at War with Itself

By Henry A. Giroux

A front-page article in the May 29, 2016, edition of The New York Times features the headline, “Rise of Trump Tracks Debate Over Fascism.” The article, by Peter Baker, examines the unlikely political trajectory of ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ooko

By Esmé Shapiro

Literary foxes are usually sly tricksters, but debut picture book author-illustrator Esmé Shapiro brings us one that is a people pleaser. Ooko is an expressive little dough ball that mistakes dogs for other foxes and ... Read More »

July 12, 2016

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

By Elizabeth Groeneveld

In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »

July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs

Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home

By Claire Eamer; Marie-Ève Tremblay (illus.)

Microbiology might seem like a complex subject to broach with middle-graders, but in her new book, Claire Eamer (winner of the 2013 Lane Anderson Award for science writing in Canada) succeeds in explaining the basics ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Who Will Catch Us as We Fall

By Iman Verjee

Edmonton-based Iman Verjee’s 2012 debut, In Between Dreams (which won the U.K.’s Peters Fraser and Dunlop/City University Prize for fiction), is set in a sleepy Canadian town. The novelist’s sophomore effort, Who Will Catch Us ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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