Decline of the Animal Kingdom

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Escape Plans

By Teri Vlassopoulos

Writing about Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut story collection, Q&Q reviewer Chelsea Murray said it “manages to evoke not just the uncertainty and fear of young adulthood, but its magic and inexplicable excitement as ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk is no stranger to environmental controversies. In his new book, the author of Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent brings us ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

All Inclusive

By Farzana Doctor

Despite having one setting – limbo – in which eating is altogether unnecessary and another – a Mexican resort – where cocktails assume a greater role than food, the quirky televised cooking contest Chopped sprang ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Captive

By Claudine Dumont; David Scott Hamilton (trans.)

In her debut novel, Quebec photographer and teacher Claudine Dumont plunges the reader into the depths of a nightmare with a visceral immediacy that leaves one gasping for breath. Emma is the sort of person ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

By Dan Gardner; Philip E. Tetlock

In 2010, Dan Gardner published Future Babble, a fascinating look at the often dodgy business of expert predictions. Much of the scientific core of the book was derived from the research of Philip Tetlock, himself ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Book of Faith

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Jane Austen and Mordecai Richler are not names that suggest an immediate association. But they are the antecedents that the publisher of Elaine Kalman Naves’s debut novel invoke to describe the story of three women ... Read More »

October 14, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Outline

By Rachel Cusk

Here is a thumbnail sketch of Rachel Cusk’s Outline: a woman goes to Athens at the height of summer to teach a writing workshop following the end of her marriage. She meets a stream of ... Read More »

October 13, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Undermajordomo Minor

By Patrick deWitt

With the release of his third novel, there’s a lot of expectation resting on Patrick deWitt’s bony shoulders. Can Undermajordomo Minor possibly live up to the standard set by his wryly funny, dark, and often ... Read More »

October 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Martin John

By Anakana Schofield

Martin John Gaffney is frequently involved in public incidents, most of which involve exposing his erect penis to women who would rather not see it. In her audacious and original second novel, Vancouver author Anakana ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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