Double Dutch

Double Dutch is a confident debut collection containing nine stories that mostly offer varying perspectives on a single theme. That theme – the body/soul duality – is an old one, though the way Trunkey employs ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

From Up River and for One Night Only

By Brett Josef Grubisic

In our attention-span-devoid, smartphone-optimized era, it seems rare – nostalgic even – for an author to prioritize meticulous craft over an action-packed storyline. Though University of British Columbia lecturer in English (and Q&Q reviewer) Brett ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel

By Katherine Govier

Having spent the past decade writing about Japan, Katherine Govier turns her gaze homeward in her latest novel – not to Toronto, where the author has lived for many years, but to her birthplace of ... Read More »

February 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stopgap

By Liam Card

Luke Stevenson dies in a car accident on his birthday, rushing to a dinner party he doesn’t want to attend, filled with people he doesn’t really like, and thrown by his wife, Alice, whom he ... Read More »

February 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications

By Diane Schoemperlen

I once managed a local museum where, occasionally, individuals charged with misdemeanours would work off their community service hours. One of them, call her “Wanda,” was an intelligent and capable single mother. She and I ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Black Apple

By Joan Crate

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run educational regime that forcibly plucked First Nations children from their homes in a effort to compel their assimilation into mainstream (meaning European) culture, has been ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

By John Boyko

Reviewing John Boyko’s 2013 volume, Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation, I was struck by how deftly the author explained Canada’s involvement in the U.S. conflict, and ... Read More »

February 16, 2016 | Filed under: History

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

By Billie Livingston

We’ll survive. That’s what we do.” Such is the central sentiment of Billie Livingston’s fourth novel, a sombre yet striking story of a small group of damaged characters connected by their efforts to endure, through ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bad Things Happen

By Kris Bertin

An armchair profiler challenge based on the acknowledgments page in the debut story collection by Kris Bertin, a Haligonian bartender: We are presented with the fact that the stories were written when Bertin was between ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Human Rights in Canada: A History

By Dominique Clément

If Canadian history were a rug, it would be marred by large lumps from the many less-than-wholesome subjects that have been swept underneath. Unafraid to peer under the rug at those unmentionable topics is Dominique ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: History

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