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Jennifer Quist on the Family Saga
"Women can’t help but out-master men when it comes to harrowing, genuine stories about how families are made."
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2015 Books for Young People Preview
Canadian children's literature has never been so good.
“One day, somebody is going to forget”: A Conversation With Mini Aodla Freeman
On how Freeman came to write her memoir, its enthusiastic reception by readers, and how copies were kept in a basement at Indian Affairs for fear that …
Summer Eats: Roasted Tomatoes from Per La Familiglia
Give your Canadian summer a mediterranean twist with this recipe for roasted tomatoes from Emily Richards' Per La Famiglia: Memories and Recipes of Southern …
Emily Urquhart on Urban Legends
Legends help to enforce the codes by which we live, but how we live changes and this affects the stories we tell.
What Both Elvis and Othello Knew
In his provocative and accessible new book, Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking With Creativity, Patrick Finn suggests that critical thinking …
Quick Hits: Books of the Year and Books for Right Now
In Quick Hits, we look through our stacks to bring you books that, when they were published, elicited a lot of reaction and praise. Our selections will …
Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2015 Poetry Preview
From Bonnie and Clyde and Love Actually references to symbolist poetry and exploded sestinas, not to mention a collection that began as reworkings …
On Our Radar
New books by Chaundry-Smart, eckhoff, Douglas, Dumont, von Konigslow, McClintock and Hughes, Gay and Homel, and Mallory and Zhao.
Shelf Talkers: July 2015
From a modern Canadian classic to a masterful YA book to a uniquely Canadian publishing situation surrounding one of the most controversial books in recent …