The Night Chorus

A poet should be a high-powered observer, a master of microscopic attention, and an instrument by which one world can be translated into another, rather like a Hubble telescope for metaphoric transmission. In his fourth ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Lost Boy

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

Seventeen-year-old Jon Nielsson has spent his entire life in Unity, a faith-based polygamous sect. He has already started to question the religion he has been brought up in since childhood when he is discovered kissing ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption

By Stephen J. Harper

“I do not want this book to focus too much on Donald Trump,” writes former prime minister Stephen Harper at the outset of his new volume on conservatism in the 21st century and the future ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart

By Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson, the bestselling author of the Malazan Book of the Fallen high fantasy series, turns to science fiction in his newest novel. Inventive and engaging, Erikson’s tale tackles big existential questions that prove relevant ... Read More »

November 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost Road

By Charis Cotter

Ruth, the tween protagonist of Charis Cotter’s new novel, doesn’t know much about her family history. Her mother died suddenly when Ruth was only two years old, and her father doesn’t have a lot of ... Read More »

November 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Log Driver’s Waltz

By Jennifer Phelan (ill.); Wade Hemsworth

Almost 40 years after the The Log Driver’s Waltz appeared as a National Film Board animated vignette, Toronto illustrator Jennifer Phelan brings a thoughtful, female-driven interpretation of the classic folk song to a new generation ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Difficult People

By Catriona Wright

The first story in Catriona Wright’s debut collection, Difficult People, features a failed academic who has found herself working as a content moderator for an internet company. As an academic, she studied chronology in Alice ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Knockoff Eclipse

By Melissa Bull

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

All of Us in Our Own Lives

By Manjushree Thapa

Canadian-Nepali author Manjushree Thapa’s All of Us in Our Own Lives begins in Toronto, where Ava Berriden is equally disillusioned with her job in corporate law and with her marriage. Deciding to leave both behind, ... Read More »

November 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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