★ My Beautiful Birds

With the arrival of Syrian refugee families in many Canadian communities, parents and children alike are charged with trying to understand the harsh experiences these new classmates and neighbours have undergone. The compassionate and beautiful ... Read More »

January 3, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Minds of Winter

By Ed O’Loughlin

When the wrecks of the expeditionary ships HMS Erebus and Terror, lost while searching for the Northwest Passage in the mid–19th century, were finally discovered (in 2014 and 2016, respectively), the events marked the final ... Read More »

January 3, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Weather Inside

By Emily Saso

Indoors or out, actual or perceived, the weather in Emily Saso’s assured debut novel tends toward the weird and tumultuous. Set in a contemporary but unappealing Toronto – “a place bloated with condo developments and ... Read More »

December 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Such a Lovely Little War

By Marcelino Truong; David Homel (trans.)

History may be written by the winners, but it’s often drawn by whomever is able to wield a pen. Cartooning and graphic memoirs like Maus and Persepolis have been able to deliver particularly subversive takes ... Read More »

December 15, 2016 | Filed under: Graphica

Truth and Honour: The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland

By Greg Marquis

Dennis Oland was perceived as a mild-mannered family man of good character. Then, on Dec. 19, 2015, he was convicted of butchering his father, Richard Oland, a millionaire businessman and part of the family that ... Read More »

December 15, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Gambling with Fire

By David Montrose

The term “Canadian noir” sounds almost oxymoronic – as a concept, it runs contrary to both our complacently benign self-image and our international reputation as wholesome, apologetic, and frostbitten. The strange difficulty of convincing ourselves ... Read More »

December 15, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You

By Adèle Barclay

Kate Sutherland’s How to Draw a Rhinoceros is a curious little book, presenting a series of poems about rhinoceroses with a focus on their commodification as spectacle over the course of western colonial history. The ... Read More »

December 12, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects

By Jane Urquhart‚ Scott McKowen (ill.)

Canada’s sesquicentennial in 2017 no doubt will prompt much soul-searching around the subject of how to define our country. Is it easier or harder, 150 years after Confederation, to explain who we are? And how ... Read More »

December 12, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reference

To Burp or Not to Burp: A Guide to Your Body in Space

By Dave Williams; Loredana Cunti; Theo Krynauw (ill.)

Two fun new fall non-fiction titles provide answers to some common (and not-so-common) questions kids may have about the world around them and beyond. I Am Josephine (And I Am a Living Thing) helps kids ... Read More »

December 12, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hag-Seed

By Margaret Atwood

Any act of artistic performance shares a close affinity with magic. Stephen King has made this connection in numerous essays, forewords, and introductions to his own work, and in his recent memoir, Bruce Springsteen refers ... Read More »

December 12, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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