★ We’re All In This Together

Some writers who begin their careers writing short fiction have a difficult time transitioning to the broader art of novel construction. The two forms, though seemingly similar, are in fact as distinct from one another ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hunting for the Mississippi

By Camille Bouchard; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

When 12-year-old Eustache Bréman, the unworldly and wide-eyed narrator of Camille Bouchard’s Hunting for the Mississippi, boards a ship bound for Louisiana, he’s filled with hope. The year is 1684, and he’s been promised that ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Big Kids

By Michael DeForge

While Michael DeForge’s early work set his freakish, often hilarious tales of growing up and discovering a sense of self in bizarre alternate realities, Big Kids features the Toronto-based comics artist’s closest approximation of the ... Read More »

April 4, 2016

★ Flannery

By Lisa Moore

Flannery is 16. She has spent her whole life in an East Coast town so small she attended Happy Kids daycare with practically every one of her current classmates. One of them in particular makes ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Metanoia

By Sharon McCartney

The word “metanoia” means a change of heart resulting from a spiritual conversion. It’s an act of transformation through penitence. In Sharon McCartney’s latest volume of poetry, that transformation feels both reluctant and unharnessed. Written ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Fifteen Lanes

By S.J. Laidlaw

In her latest novel, S.J. Laidlaw gives us a poignant story of two girls who share a city but lead vastly different lives. Grace enjoys the luxurious lifestyle of an expat, though her shyness prevents ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Model Disciple

By Michael Prior

“Discomfort / enthralls me,” writes Michael Prior, a poet who has published, seemingly, everywhere, and whose list of accolades is monumental. His first full-length collection, Model Disciple, concerns itself with the cycles of family history ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Slow States of Collapse

By Ashley-Elizabeth Best

Ashley-Elizabeth Best’s debut collection, Slow States of Collapse, comprises mostly short, confessional, free-verse lyrics. The book is divided into five sections, some held more tightly together than others by a thematic or referential constant. The ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Fluffy Strikes Back (A P.U.R.S.T. Adventure)

By Ashley Spires

After five books about Binky, the flatulent cat who yearns for intergalactic adventures, author-illustrator Ashley Spires launches a new spin-off series, introducing readers to Fluffy Vandermere, the head feline at P.U.R.S.T. (Pets of the Universe ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools

By Melanie Florence

One of the challenges confronting Canadian youth is the legacy of their country’s horrific treatment of its First Nations. The deliberate, determined attempts to annihilate aboriginal ways of life culminated in the creation of the ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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