Everyone Can Be a Changemaker: The Ashoka Effect

In Everyone Can Be a Changemaker, veteran author Christine Welldon has written 16 profiles of people from around the world (a number are Canadian) who took a spark of an idea intended to help others ... Read More »

June 13, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Crow Jazz

By Linda Rogers

In the acknowledgements to her first short-story collection, acclaimed B.C. poet, essayist, and novelist Linda Rogers amusingly notes, “Accustomed to sips and gulps, poems and novels, the challenge of short fiction was like asking a ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Amateurs

By Liz Harmer

In her near-perfect debut novel, Liz Harmer taps into current anxieties about technology to explore themes of transcendence, post-urbanity, and survival. Harmer has won a National Magazine Award and been published in multiple literary journals; ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Book Betrays My Brother

By Kagiso Lesego Molope

Naledi, the narrator of Kagiso Lesego Molope’s young adult novel, could be mistaken for a stereotypical North American teenage girl, obsessed with boys, clothes, and music. But Naledi comes from a township in South Africa ... Read More »

June 11, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery

By Julie Morstad (ill.); Liz Rosenberg

People travel from all over the world to Prince Edward Island to visit the place where L.M. Montgomery grew up, to see where her most famous novel, Anne of Green Gables, takes place, and to ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

On the Up

By Shilo Jones

As it appears in the newspaper these days, Vancouver is a strange, divided city. This perception is reinforced in the expansive fiction debut from former tree planter, English teacher, and University of British Columbia MFA ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

By Mark A. McCutcheon

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror novel, Frankenstein. In the two centuries since its appearance, the book has taken on the mantle of a cultural ... Read More »

June 7, 2018 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mary Cyr

By David Adams Richards

Over a long and lauded career, David Adams Richards has carved out a spot as the chronicler of misery among the impoverished of New Brunswick’s Miramichi River region. With his new novel, he demonstrates that ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hedgehog

By Ashlyn Anstee

While the Fan Brothers, Debbie Ridpath Ohi, and Ashlyn Anstee employ acutely different tones, styles, and media in their latest picture books, all unearth joy in some of life’s most unpleasant feelings: grief, sadness, and ... Read More »

June 4, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books