★ Sweet Affliction

The 15 stories that make up Journey Prize nominee Anna Leventhal’s debut collection, set in contemporary and recent-past Montreal, are about people who stumble and struggle and don’t always do the right thing. Most of ... Read More »

July 14, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mating for Life

By Marissa Stapley

In her debut novel, Toronto’s Marissa Stapley challenges entrenched ideas of what it means to be a wife and mother, and explores how modern women often struggle to maintain their own identities in the face ... Read More »

July 10, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Guyana

By Élise Turcotte; Rhonda Mullins (trans.)

Rhonda Mullins’ translation of Montreal writer Élise Turcotte’s 2011 novel instantly transports readers into a cramped world that nearly shimmers with fear. Ana is clinging to a tenuous bond with her touch-averse young son, Philippe, ... Read More »

July 7, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plague

By C.C. Humphreys

The new thriller by C.C. Humphreys opens in England in the year 1665. Gentleman thief and ex-cavalier Captain Coke is being pursued by Pitman, a bounty hunter and former roundhead with a growing family to ... Read More »

July 3, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Juliet Was a Surprise

By Bill Gaston

Novelist, dramatist, poet, and short-story writer Bill Gaston is a quadruple threat, but it’s with his stories that he’s had the most measurable success (his 2002 collection, Mount Appetite, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Summertime Swamp Love

By Patricia Young

Patricia Young, author of 12 previous books of poetry, has embarked on a peculiar mission in her latest volume: getting inside the psyches of animals with deviant (by human standards) sexual practices. Summertime Swamp Love ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

The Order in Which We Do Things

By Tom Wayman; Owen Percy (ed.)

Over the past 40 years, Tom Wayman has established a reputation as the Canadian work poet. In a series of collections, he has written about labour, strikes, the seemingly intransigent relationship between workers and management, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Duffy: Stardom to Senate to Scandal

By Dan Leger

For better or worse, there’s nothing like a scandal to rile people up about the political status quo. The Canadian senate, viewed by the public with begrudging apathy at the best of times, is a ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trouble on Main Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, Race, and the 1907 Vancouver Riots

By Julie F. Gilmour

The life of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, has been a favourite topic of Canadian historians for decades. Yet first-time author Julie F. Gilmour has managed to break fresh ground with Trouble ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: History

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