Laura Monster Crusher

There’s a reason popular kids aren’t usually called upon to take up quests in middle-grade fantasy: all metaphor goes out the window. Where’s the satisfaction in seeing a well-liked, effortlessly capable 12-year-old take down evil ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Boundless

By Jillian Tamaki

The opening and closing spreads in Jillian Tamaki’s new collection of graphic short stories feature characters spilling off the edges of the page. The opener, “World-Class City,” is bookended by figures placed in directional opposition ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Roughneck

By Jeff Lemire

In 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped while working in the town of Nazran, located in Ingushetia, a small Russian republic west of Chechnya. André was held captive for 111 days before ... Read More »

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

★ Hostage

By Guy Delisle; Helge Dascher (trans.)

May 8, 2017 | Filed under: Graphica, Reviews

Dingus

By Andrew Larsen

Life is changing for 11-year-old Henry, and not necessarily in ways he likes. He’s been okay with a baby brother arriving on the scene after 10 years of being an only child, okay with his ... Read More »

May 4, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Slip

By Mark Sampson

When Philip Sharpe – philosophy professor, bestselling author, and left-wing public intellectual – makes a phenomenally ill-advised remark on live TV, his “slip” goes viral, sending the rest of his life into a tailspin. It’s ... Read More »

May 4, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Where it Hurts

By Sarah De Leeuw

Where it Hurts, by University of Northern British Columbia associate professor Sarah De Leeuw, details (among other things) the author’s life and times as a restless yet perceptive resident of remote outposts in northern B.C., ... Read More »

May 3, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Me and Me

By Alice Kuipers

Alice Kuipers seems to have a direct conduit to the teenage mind. Her young-adult novels capture the lives of regular, relatable teens without veering toward the sanitized or the cringe-inducing, so-raw-it-must-be-real pitfalls that can trip ... Read More »

May 2, 2017

Blue Field

By Elise Levine

Some novels draw you in; Blue Field drags you under and keeps clamping down, an exercise in storytelling as centrifugal force. A good portion of Elise Levine’s first book in more than a decade takes ... Read More »

May 1, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By Scaachi Koul

Based on the conversational style, cultural relevance, and range of her work – which encompasses everything from current events newspieces to pop-culture listicles to personal essays, often about her family or Indian heritage – Toronto ... Read More »

April 24, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

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