Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

In Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in the women’s studies department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, investigates the magazines that defined feminism of the 1990s. From third-wave publications like Bitch, ... Read More »

July 11, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Politics & Current Affairs

Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home

By Claire Eamer; Marie-Ève Tremblay (illus.)

Microbiology might seem like a complex subject to broach with middle-graders, but in her new book, Claire Eamer (winner of the 2013 Lane Anderson Award for science writing in Canada) succeeds in explaining the basics ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Who Will Catch Us as We Fall

By Iman Verjee

Edmonton-based Iman Verjee’s 2012 debut, In Between Dreams (which won the U.K.’s Peters Fraser and Dunlop/City University Prize for fiction), is set in a sleepy Canadian town. The novelist’s sophomore effort, Who Will Catch Us ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dancing in the Rain

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

In Shelley hrdlitschka’s 2002 novel, Dancing Naked, a teenager named Kia finds herself pregnant. Through the help of her minister, she decides to carry the baby to term and put her up for adoption. Dancing ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

By Gaslight

By Steven Price

Steven Price’s By Gaslight is a 19th-century sensation novel rewritten with a noir sensibility: Wilkie Collins meets Raymond Chandler. And it goes some way toward meeting our expectations for books of that kind – that ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Cranky Ballerina

By Elise Gravel

The Cranky Ballerina introduces readers to Ada, who, as the title suggests, is a reluctant dancer. Ada’s not usually in a bad mood, except on Saturdays, when she has to go to ballet class. Ada ... Read More »

July 4, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

All That Man Is

By David Szalay

There’s a deftly submerged schematic quality to Montreal-born writer David Szalay’s All That Man Is, an anthology of short stories that are (almost entirely) unconnected on the level of dramaturgy, but very clearly in conversation ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Maxwell the Monkey Barber

By Cale Atkinson

In this rhyming picture book, Maxwell the monkey opens his jungle barbershop to numerous wild animals with equally wild hair: a baboon with a mass of curls, a lion with a beastly mane, and a ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stranger

By David Bergen

David Bergen, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner The Time In Between and a finalist on Canada Reads for The Age of Hope, returns with a new novel that is arguably his best yet. ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels From Cleopatra to Lady Gaga

By Jennifer Croll; Ada Buchholc (illus.)

There comes a point in every kid’s life when the freedom of wearing clothes that express how they feel in the moment – whether it be sparkly butterfly wings, a cowboy hat, or mismatched socks ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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