Ghost Warning

Seventeen-year-old Lou James recalls her journalist father saying to her in a moment of reflection, “Maybe there is no point in living or dying, other than the overarching point that we are biological organisms trying ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Montreal Noir

By Jacques Filippi (ed.); John McFetridge (ed.)

There is a particular sensibility associated with the noir genre in both film and literature. Steeped in shadow and gloom, with origins in German expressionism, the noir temperament is saturated in booze, sex, and sin. ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Recipe for Hate

By Warren Kinsella

While Recipe for Hate is the first young adult novel from Toronto polymath Warren Kinsella (whose resumé includes lawyer, writer, musician, consultant, and commentator), it reads like a culmination of certain aspects of his life ... Read More »

October 31, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

By Lisa Charleyboy (ed.); Mary Beth Leatherdale (ed.)

From the editors of Urban Tribes (2015) and Dreaming in Indian (2014), this new release focuses on the strength, resilience, and pride of Indigenous women. The collection starts with a striking piece of art, RedWoman, ... Read More »

October 27, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A Thousand Consolations

By Julie Roorda

“Love is not an emotion, but a sense.” Thus begins Julie Roorda’s sweetly funny debut novel, a story of the unexpected romance between Paula, a grieving Toronto widow, and Héctor Vargas, a pianist on the ... Read More »

October 26, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

By Kai Cheng Thom; Kai Yun Ching (ill.); Wai-Yant Li (ill.)

Kai Cheng Thom’s From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea is an exquisitely rendered picture book about gender and identity. It tells the story of Miu Lan, a child who ... Read More »

October 26, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment

By Claude Lalumière

There is a Monty Python sketch from 1969 called “Candid Photography” (or sometimes simply “Nudge, Nudge”), in which a young rake interrogates an older, conservative man about his sex life by means of cryptic but ... Read More »

October 24, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

By Vicki Grant

Two strangers walk into a room. They sit facing each other. They ask and answer 36 predetermined questions ranging from the banal to the intimate. Afterward, they stare into each other’s eyes silently for four ... Read More »

October 23, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Brief History of Oversharing: One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation

By Shawn Hitchins

Shawn Hitchins dedicates his debut collection of essays to two people: “Harrison Ford, for making me gay,” and “my father, for making me a comedian.” That salty-sweet-salty combination is Hitchins’s go-to mode in A Brief ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Louis Undercover

By Fanny Britt; Isabelle Arsenault (ill.); Christelle Morelli (trans.); Susan Ouriou (trans.)

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault follow up their Governor General’s Literary Award–winning Jane, the Fox and Me with a second graphic novel collaboration of equal acuity. The titular protagonist of Louis Uncover is a perceptive ... Read More »

October 17, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Kids’ Books

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