Leading Lines

The third novel in the Pippa Green series maintains the fun yet poignant standard set by author Chantel Guertin in the previous instalments. Though things aren’t great in Pippa’s life, Guertin never allows her story ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Heartache and Other Natural Shocks

By Glenda Leznoff

Playwright and artist Glenda Leznoff sets her sexy, honest story about a love triangle between three teens against the backdrop of the early 1970s and the FLQ crisis. Trouble begins when Jules Epstein’s anglophone mother ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Small Bones

By Vicki Grant

Series are a popular choice for many young readers. Familiar elements – tone, setting, character, theme – welcome you back in the next book, offering a world in which you already feel comfortable. Orca Book ... Read More »

September 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Sistering

By Jennifer Quist

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Light Years

By Caroline Woodward

When we embark on dream-chasing, life-altering decisions, we often look for signs and signals to guide us on our way. We imbue the smallest things with meaning, giving our choices purpose, attempting to prove, despite ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Mouthquake

By Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox’s fourth novel, Mouthquake, is his most assured and accomplished to date. It opens on an anonymous young boy in Montreal who speaks with a stutter, conceives of himself as a German shepherd, ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meadowlark

By Wendi Stewart

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Truffaut Notebook

By Sam Solecki

There is a spectre haunting retired University of Toronto English professor Sam Solecki’s new book about François Truffaut – the spectre of Jean-Luc Godard. Solecki is not the first critic to contrast the twin figureheads ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption

By Brian Gorman

MacEwan University assistant professor of communication Brian Gorman argues that the Internet and the 2008 economic downturn had deleterious effects on ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fugitives

By Lise Gauvin; Jonathan Kaplansky trans.

It’s a cliché that the nuances of a written work can be lost in translation; what’s distressing in Canada is how many worthy works are lost without it. New English-language editions of story collections by ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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