Filmmaker Michelle Latimer on helming adaptations of Eden Robinson’s Trickster series and Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian.

Vivek Shraya talks revisiting her tender debut God Loves Hair with a 10th-anniversary edition
To commemorate God Loves Hair’s 10th anniversary, Shraya is re-releasing the collection in hardcover with a new story, new artwork by the book’s illustrator, Juliana Neufeld, and a foreword by author Cherie Dimaline.

Richard Gwyn, 1934–2020, is remembered as a prolific and incisive political thinker and writer
Richard Gwyn, whose political knowledge, acumen, and access were astounding, died on Aug. 15 at the age of 86.
North America’s first PhD in publishing, Amanda Lastoria, on researching Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland
Amanda Lastoria’s research at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University used Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to explore how book design influences the way a reader constructs meaning.

Author and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews investigates the history of pandemics from the Black Death through COVID-19
Marianne Boucher finds healing in her graphic memoir of escaping a cult
As an 18-year-old, Boucher was recruited by a charismatic band of young people to join the Unification movement, which she eventually came to recognize as a cult.
Essay: Timothy Findley believed that in times of crisis, imagination has the power to save
Sherrill Grace, an officer of the Order of Canada, on Timothy Findley’s prescient plague writing.
Silver Donald Cameron remembered as a careful, perceptive chronicler of life in a small Cape Breton community
Writer and environmentalist Silver Donald Cameron was the unofficial laureate of D’Escousse on the southern edge of Cape Breton.

Five debut authors share the stories behind their work
Q&Q spotlights a few of the exciting new voices you may have missed.