Summertime Swamp Love

Patricia Young, author of 12 previous books of poetry, has embarked on a peculiar mission in her latest volume: getting inside the psyches of animals with deviant (by human standards) sexual practices. Summertime Swamp Love ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

The Order in Which We Do Things

By Tom Wayman; Owen Percy (ed.)

Over the past 40 years, Tom Wayman has established a reputation as the Canadian work poet. In a series of collections, he has written about labour, strikes, the seemingly intransigent relationship between workers and management, ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Duffy: Stardom to Senate to Scandal

By Dan Leger

For better or worse, there’s nothing like a scandal to rile people up about the political status quo. The Canadian senate, viewed by the public with begrudging apathy at the best of times, is a ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Trouble on Main Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, Race, and the 1907 Vancouver Riots

By Julie F. Gilmour

The life of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, has been a favourite topic of Canadian historians for decades. Yet first-time author Julie F. Gilmour has managed to break fresh ground with Trouble ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: History

Open Secret

By Deryn Collier

With her second novel, Deryn Collier returns to the fictional B.C. town of Kootenay Landing and to the character of former Canadian Forces commander Bern Fortin, who now works as the town coroner. Collier continues ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

How Loveta Got Her Baby

By Nicholas Ruddock

Nicholas Ruddock follows his 2010 debut novel, The Parabolist (which was nominated for the Toronto Book Awards and an Arthur Ellis Award), with a collection of linked stories set in and around St. John’s. There ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide

By D.D. Miller

D.D. Miller’s debut story collection will probably raise a few eyebrows with its shamelessly provocative title. And for the most part, these tales live up to that promised audaciousness, even as Miller runs a familiar ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Little Bastards in Springtime

By Katja Rudolph

Almost two decades ago, the war in Bosnia was belatedly forced to an end by Western diplomats. Katja Rudolph’s debut novel is a visceral reminder that we share our country with survivors of this and ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bee Summers

By Melanie Dugan

This coming-of-age novel by Melanie Dugan follows 11-year-old Melissa, abandoned by her mother and left in the care of her father, an emotionally distant handyman and beekeeper who has little choice but to take her ... Read More »

June 26, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Summertime Swamp Love

The Order in Which We Do Things

Duffy: Stardom to Senate to Scandal

Trouble on Main Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, Race, and the 1907 Vancouver Riots

Open Secret

How Loveta Got Her Baby

David Foster Wallace Ruined My Suicide

Little Bastards in Springtime

Bee Summers

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