Bunny and Shark

A Montreal-based writer and artist, Alisha Piercy has described the thematic preoccupation of her oeuvre as “the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences.” Her debut novel ... Read More »

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toronto: Biography of a City

By Allan Levine

The subtitle of Allan Levine’s ambitious history of Toronto may seem as stolid as the city’s British founding families, but it doesn’t take long for the reader to realize how carefully chosen it is. Levine, ... Read More »

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: History

Coming Ashore

By Catherine Gildiner

With the release of Coming Ashore, Catherine Gildiner completes her trilogy of memoirs – the first two being 1999’s Too Close to the Falls (covering ages 4–12) and 2009’s After the Falls (ages 13–20). Thanks ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms

The stories in the debut collection from Toronto writer, editor, and critic (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Shawn Syms, draw back the comforter to reveal the tattered, blood-stained sheets beneath. That might seem like a forced ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Quartet for the End of Time

By Johanna Skibsrud

With the centenary of the First World War upon us – not to mention the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, and elsewhere – a story like Quartet for the End of Time, which explores ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Fatherland

By Nina Bunjevac

An accomplished graphic memoir entwining family secrets with the history of a region wracked by violence, Fatherland is bleak, yet undeniably fascinating. The book begins in the 1970s, in the small Ontario town of Welland. ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Graphica

The Answer to Everything

By Elyse Friedman

You are standing in front of a mechanical contraption, and you have a choice: push the big black SAVE button and preserve a one-of-a-kind photograph, or do nothing and watch the image obliterate in a ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The things I heard about you

By Alex Leslie

Alex Leslie’s manuscript for The things I heard about you was a finalist for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Its innovation draws inspiration from the late John Thompson, a poet with a ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Five Days Left

By Julie Lawson Timmer

Julie Lawson Timmer lets you know how highly dramatic her debut novel will be in the opening paragraph: “Mara had chosen the method long ago: pills, vodka and carbon monoxide. A ‘garage cocktail,’ she called ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison

By Ramin Jahanbegloo

A memoir about solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison conjures up nightmarish images of severe body blows and gruesome acts that don’t make for bedtime reading. However, celebrated author and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo’s take ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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