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Excerpt: Donner Prize finalist Daniel Levitin’s A Field Guide To Lies

Five titles are shortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner Prize, which recognizes excellence in public-policy writing by Canadians. The winner, who will be announced May, 15, will receive $50,000, while the other nominated authors will each ... Read More »

May 9, 2017

Personal Essay: My novel is not particularly prescient, it’s more that reality is now encroaching on fiction, writes Omar El Akkad

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It is September of 2015 and we have come to the Ronald Reagan library in California to watch the disintegration of the Republican Party. I am one of hundreds of journalists from around the world ... Read More »

March 27, 2017

Spring Preview 2017: International

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Fiction Short fiction Renowned feminist essayist and critic Roxane Gay follows her non-fiction book, Bad Feminist, and the novel An Untamed State with a collection of short fiction titled Difficult Women (Grove Press). • Viet ... Read More »

February 2, 2017

Personal Essay: Writing a book about New Brunswick’s most notorious murder case involved walking some thin lines

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The murder of multi-millionaire New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland, and the investigation and trial of his only son, Dennis, has captivated public attention in the city of Saint John. It has dominated my life for ... Read More »

January 26, 2017

Q&Q staff share their holiday-gift picks

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It’s no surprise that Q&Q staff fill their holiday shopping lists with books. Here are some of the titles they’ll be wrapping up as gifts this year: "The book that I’m giving as a gift ... Read More »

December 15, 2016

2016: The Year in Review

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Our 2015 Year in Review suggested there was reason to feel cautiously optimistic heading into 2016. That prediction was not inaccurate. A new federal government, which seemingly supports open dialogue with authors and publishers, and ... Read More »

December 6, 2016

Personal Essay: Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes Kerry Lee Powell

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I read Alice Munro for the first time when I was living in a semi-abandoned cottage near an open-cast coal mine in Wales. We had no TV and no central heating and the nearest village ... Read More »

December 5, 2016 | Filed under: Authors

Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?

By Q&Q Staff

Every year, the search for the Great Gay Novel proves to be more challenging than the last. A few rare exceptions sprout up annually: in 2014, Toronto writer Greg Kearney was nominated for a Lambda ... Read More »

November 29, 2016

Books of the Year 2016

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Q&Q editors Steven W. Beattie and Sue Carter reveal some of their favourite releases of 2016 The Parcel Anosh Irani Knopf Canada Anosh Irani, who grew up near the red-light district in Mumbai, employs first-hand ... Read More »

November 28, 2016

Books of the Year 2016: Reviewer Picks

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Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year The Break Katherena Vermette House of Anansi Press Katherena Vermette’s fiction debut is a novel that allows, like no other, mainstream society to peer into the ... Read More »

November 28, 2016

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Excerpt: Donner Prize finalist Daniel Levitin’s A Field Guide To Lies

Personal Essay: My novel is not particularly prescient, it’s more that reality is now encroaching on fiction, writes Omar El Akkad

Spring Preview 2017: International

Personal Essay: Writing a book about New Brunswick’s most notorious murder case involved walking some thin lines

Q&Q staff share their holiday-gift picks

2016: The Year in Review

Personal Essay: Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes Kerry Lee Powell

Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?

Books of the Year 2016

Books of the Year 2016: Reviewer Picks

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