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A Superior Man

By Paul Yee

Paul Yee has built a respected career as a children’s and young-adult author, from the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning picture book Ghost Train to the contemporary LGBT YA novel Money Boy. The author, who holds ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Entrainment

By Ewan Whyte

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Decline of the Animal Kingdom

By Laura Clarke

Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Escape Plans

By Teri Vlassopoulos

Writing about Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut story collection, Q&Q reviewer Chelsea Murray said it “manages to evoke not just the uncertainty and fear of young adulthood, but its magic and inexplicable excitement as ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All Inclusive

By Farzana Doctor

Despite having one setting – limbo – in which eating is altogether unnecessary and another – a Mexican resort – where cocktails assume a greater role than food, the quirky televised cooking contest Chopped sprang ... Read More »

October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels