Some Extremely Boring Drives

Many of the characters who inhabit B.C. writer Marguerite Pigeon’s first short-story collection live at the edges and extremes, set adrift in some way from their homes and travelling toward the unknown. Themes of escape, ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

By Matt Rader

Matt Rader is an acclaimed writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction whose work has appeared in numerous journals. He’s been nominated for the Journey Prize and two Pushcart Prizes, and his story “All This Was ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire, and Moving Between Worlds

By Peter Dubé

Montreal author Peter Dubé’s new short-story collection affirms his place at the forefront of gay surrealist fiction. Dubé, who edited the queer men’s surrealist anthology Madder Love, confidently blends the strange, fantastical, and occult into ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

By Helen Marshall

Following her 2012 debut collection, Hair Side, Flesh Side (which won her a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer), Helen Marshall returns with 17 disquieting excursions into dark and darkly funny places. In the dimly ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

By Michael Winter

In his first foray into non-fiction, novelist Michael Winter (This All Happened, Minister Without Portfolio) has written a love letter to the soldiers who fought for the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War. ... Read More »

October 27, 2014 | Filed under: History

Bunny and Shark

By Alisha Piercy

A Montreal-based writer and artist, Alisha Piercy has described the thematic preoccupation of her oeuvre as “the tension between exile and freedom as it plays out in a diversity of islanded experiences.” Her debut novel ... Read More »

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Toronto: Biography of a City

By Allan Levine

The subtitle of Allan Levine’s ambitious history of Toronto may seem as stolid as the city’s British founding families, but it doesn’t take long for the reader to realize how carefully chosen it is. Levine, ... Read More »

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: History

Coming Ashore

By Catherine Gildiner

With the release of Coming Ashore, Catherine Gildiner completes her trilogy of memoirs – the first two being 1999’s Too Close to the Falls (covering ages 4–12) and 2009’s After the Falls (ages 13–20). Thanks ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nothing Looks Familiar

By Shawn Syms

The stories in the debut collection from Toronto writer, editor, and critic (and frequent Q&Q reviewer) Shawn Syms, draw back the comforter to reveal the tattered, blood-stained sheets beneath. That might seem like a forced ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Anthologies, Fiction: Short

Quartet for the End of Time

By Johanna Skibsrud

With the centenary of the First World War upon us – not to mention the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, and elsewhere – a story like Quartet for the End of Time, which explores ... Read More »

October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Some Extremely Boring Drives

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

Beginning with the Mirror: Ten Stories about Love, Desire, and Moving Between Worlds

★ Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

Bunny and Shark

Toronto: Biography of a City

Coming Ashore

Nothing Looks Familiar

Quartet for the End of Time

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