


The two latest offerings from McGill-Queen’s University Press’s Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series are both formalist musings about love. Bruce Whiteman is a full-time author, rare book specialist, and book reviewer (including for Q&Q). His latest ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

The two latest offerings from McGill-Queen’s University Press’s Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series are both formalist musings about love. Bruce Whiteman is a full-time author, rare book specialist, and book reviewer (including for Q&Q). His latest ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Kurdish-born Jalal Barzanji prefers to keep his political beliefs separate from his poetry. During the darkness of Saddam Hussein’s despotic regime in Iraq, which included ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Kurds, there was a demand for ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

The title of Robyn Sarah’s My Shoes Are Killing Me speaks to the nostalgia that her poems explore: if “nostalgia” literally means “painful homecoming,” then the “shoes” – read as a metonymy for the past ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Multiculturalism is a myth Canadians like to console themselves with. Politically correct language and bromides about the cultural mosaic notwithstanding, the Great White North does not have a stellar history when it comes to its ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry

Heather O’Neill – whose first book, Lullabies for Little Criminals, won CBC’s Canada Reads competition in 2007 and whose second, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize – ... Read More »
April 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, returns with her fifth novel, a tale of privilege, ambition, romance, and self-discovery set in the Scottish Highlands during the final year of the Second World War. For ... Read More »
March 30, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

How does it feel to be surrounded by people who see you as the enemy? How do you protect yourself when you aren’t sure whom to trust? The protagonists of Uncertain Soldier, Karen Bass’s wonderful ... Read More »
March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Inspired by the work of organizations that send donated bicycles to countries around the world, two new picture books explore the life-changing gift of mobility. In a Cloud of Dust offers a glimpse into the ... Read More »
March 26, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books