Things She Could Never Have

Daniel Karasik’s debut story collection opens with a taut chamber piece that barely fills five pages, and closes with a story – spanning 80 pages, multiple narrators, and several decades – that could easily be branded ... Read More »

January 12, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Fox and the Fisherman

By Marianne Dumas

Interspecies friendships abound in literature for children – from Wilbur and Fern to Babe and Farmer Hoggett. Quebec-based author and illustrator Marianne Dumas upholds this tradition in her debut picture book, The Fox and the ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Tangled Planet

By Kate Blair

In the second work of speculative fiction by YA author Kate Blair, the passengers of spaceship Venture have finally arrived at Beta Earth, ready to colonize the untouched planet. But for 17-year-old Ursa, the ship ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975–2015

By Robyn Sarah

Spencer Gordon’s debut book of poetry, Cruise Missile Liberals, opens with the speaker admiring an X-ray’s clarity of purpose, and closes with a desire to be like the enduring trees, which never need a “wake ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Drakkar Noir

By Jeramy Dodds

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Cruise Missile Liberals

By Spencer Gordon

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia

By John DeMont

In August 2017, the bitter strike between the Halifax Typographical Union and the city’s newspaper, The Chronicle Herald, ended after 19 lengthy months. The paper’s most beloved journalist, John DeMont, was one of the strikers. ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All We Leave Behind: A Reporter’s Journey into the Lives of Others

By Carol Off

In early 2002, when the world’s attention was aimed at the war in Afghanistan, CBC Television journalist Carol Off landed the thing people in her profession live for – a good “get.” In Kabul, Off ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

My Conversations with Canadians

By Lee Maracle

To read Lee Maracle’s My Conversations with Canadians and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Blank back-to-back is to confront the very real possibility that Martin Luther King Jr.’s belief in a moral universe whose long arc bends ... Read More »

January 4, 2018 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays