★ Don’t Be Interesting

Jacob McArthur Mooney’s first collection since 2011’s Folk (which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize) has at its centre a mind-bending conundrum. A graph (which functions as a kind of preface to the collection ... Read More »

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Harry and Walter

By Kathy Stinson; Qin Leng (illus.)

Next-door neighbours Harry and Walter are best friends. Harry is four and three-quarters and Walter is 92 and a half. Despite the generation gap, the “boys” do everything together, from making paper airplanes to building ... Read More »

March 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Killing Game: Martyrdom, Murder and the Lure of ISIS

By Mark Bourrie

Marshall McLuhan would have had a field day exploring the dynamics of a terrorist group whose instantly recognizable brand of brutality appeals to disaffected youth while inspiring panic in the world’s most powerful nations. Ottawa ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

By Alan Cumyn

A cute new transfer student usually causes a fair bit of commotion in high school, but when that transfer student happens to be a dinosaur who should have been extinct for the last 65 million ... Read More »

March 10, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Mingus Lullaby

By Dane Swan

“Genre doesn’t exist,” claims Dane Swan in a 2013 interview on the website Black Coffee Poet. “There are different ways you have to manipulate your work so that it fits a medium. Medium exists. For ... Read More »

March 9, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing

By Carol Shields; Anne Giardini (ed.); Nicholas Giardini (ed.)

When Carol Shields died in 2003, she left behind a wealth of papers and unpublished material now housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. One of Canada’s pre-eminent novelists (the word “beloved” frequently accompanies ... Read More »

March 7, 2016 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Saving Montgomery Sole

By Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded with stock outcasts, Tamaki’s weirdos stand out for never being merely the sum of a few obvious quirks or emotions. Nor are they princes- and ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Mom, Dad, Our Books, and Me

By Danielle Marcotte; Josée Bisaillon (illus.); Karen Li (trans.)

Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Big Surprise for Little Card

By Charise Mericle Harper; Anna Raff (illus.)

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Glory Over Everything

By Kathleen Grissom

Glory Over Everything, the second novel by Saskatchewan-raised, Virginia-based Kathleen Grissom, is the sequel to the New York Times bestseller and book-club favourite The Kitchen House. Drawing its title from the words of abolitionist Harriet ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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