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Lumberjanes: Unicorn Power!

In 2013, comic publisher Boom! Studios started an imprint called Boom! Box – a space for experimental, creator-driven work by writers and artists from outside the mainstream industry. Their second title, Lumberjanes (2014), was a ... Read More »

September 11, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lost in September

By Kathleen Winter

Kathleen Winter’s first novel, Annabel, made a deserved splash in 2010: it became a national bestseller and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Bethune’s Children

By Xue Yiwei; Darryl Sterk (trans.)

A chance encounter in a Montreal supermarket brings back memories for the nameless narrator of Dr. Bethune’s Children, inspiring him to write a series of letters addressed to Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian communist who ... Read More »

September 7, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction

By Britt Wray

“To this day I have never troubled about the ethics of the matter. The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.” So says the eponymous vivisector in H.G. Wells’s 1896 ... Read More »

September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

By Payam Akhavan

When Payam Akhavan casually comments, midway through In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, that he spent his youth “making history,” he’s not pulling a Trump, but stating a fact. The McGill ... Read More »

September 6, 2017 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Burning Girl

By Claire Messud

Twelve-year-olds are much more sophisticated these days than they used to be, at least in Claire Messud’s fictional Boston suburb of Royston. Best friends since nursery school, Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes are only in ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Painting

By Charis Cotter

Like its well-received predecessor, The Swallow, Charis Cotter’s new novel involves untimely death, ghosts, and two isolated tween girls who narrate the story in rapidly alternating sections. Both of The Painting’s 12-year-old heroines have issues ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ A Bird on Every Tree

By Carol Bruneau

Peninsula Sinking opens with a literary punch to the gut. “Enigma,” the first story in the debut collection from Halifax writer David Huebert (who now lives in London, Ontario) was awarded the CBC Short Story ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Peninsula Sinking

By David Huebert

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Dirty Kids: Chasing Freedom with America’s Nomads

By Chris Urquhart; Kitra Cahana (photog.)

If you live in an urban centre, you’ve seen them, perhaps even daily: unbathed youth in rotten studded jackets begging for change streetside; dreadlocked 20-somethings napping on sidewalks midday beside Sharpied cardboard signs; a kid ... Read More »

August 30, 2017 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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