★ The Black Coat

It is a testament to the relatively placid temperament of the Canadian state that political fiction in this country tends to tilt either in the direction of Wayne Johnston’s myth-making or Terry Fallis’s broad comedy. ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Angel’s Jig

By Daniel Poliquin; Wayne Grady (trans.)

Slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, but in the years between 1875 and 1925 (roughly), orphans and indigent seniors in parts of New Brunswick were regularly auctioned off as unpaid servants – slaves, in ... Read More »

April 11, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Principles to Live By

By David Adams Richards

Grounded in the Christian doctrine of self-sacrifice and original sin, the unflinching moral vision of David Adams Richards has set his work in opposition to the relativist, humanist worldview espoused by the majority of Canadian ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ We’re All In This Together

By Amy Jones

Some writers who begin their careers writing short fiction have a difficult time transitioning to the broader art of novel construction. The two forms, though seemingly similar, are in fact as distinct from one another ... Read More »

April 5, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Hunting for the Mississippi

By Camille Bouchard; Peter McCambridge (trans.)

When 12-year-old Eustache Bréman, the unworldly and wide-eyed narrator of Camille Bouchard’s Hunting for the Mississippi, boards a ship bound for Louisiana, he’s filled with hope. The year is 1684, and he’s been promised that ... Read More »

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

Big Kids

By Michael DeForge

While Michael DeForge’s early work set his freakish, often hilarious tales of growing up and discovering a sense of self in bizarre alternate realities, Big Kids features the Toronto-based comics artist’s closest approximation of the ... Read More »

April 4, 2016

★ Flannery

By Lisa Moore

Flannery is 16. She has spent her whole life in an East Coast town so small she attended Happy Kids daycare with practically every one of her current classmates. One of them in particular makes ... Read More »

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

★ Metanoia

By Sharon McCartney

The word “metanoia” means a change of heart resulting from a spiritual conversion. It’s an act of transformation through penitence. In Sharon McCartney’s latest volume of poetry, that transformation feels both reluctant and unharnessed. Written ... Read More »

April 4, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Fifteen Lanes

By S.J. Laidlaw

In her latest novel, S.J. Laidlaw gives us a poignant story of two girls who share a city but lead vastly different lives. Grace enjoys the luxurious lifestyle of an expat, though her shyness prevents ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Model Disciple

By Michael Prior

“Discomfort / enthralls me,” writes Michael Prior, a poet who has published, seemingly, everywhere, and whose list of accolades is monumental. His first full-length collection, Model Disciple, concerns itself with the cycles of family history ... Read More »

March 29, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

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