For Straphanger, Grescoe did the dirty work that too many of us in North America shun: he rode urban buses, subways, and trains in a dozen countries.
By Leila Marshy
Interviews
An award-winning poet, anthologist, and teacher, Queyras took a decade to write Autobiography of Childhood.
By Marianne Ackerman
Big Questions is the culmination of 15 years worth of work by graphic novelist Anders Nilsen.
By Lori Callaghan
There is no shortage of pro-hockey literature; maybe the time is ripe for some wholly dissenting voices.
By Ian McGillis
To catnap or not to catnap, that is often the life-or-death question in Tjia’s latest creation.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Green pepper aficionados, weekend brunchers, and self-identified foodies beware: Jonah Campbell has no love for you.
By Andrea Belcham
Adam Gopnik has been reliably surprising us for so long now that there might be a danger of taking him for granted. Step back a bit from his work, though, and it becomes clear just how unusual the fifty-five year-old’s approach is.
By Ian McGillis
In the 1960s and 1970s, “Canada’s toughest neighbourhood” was neglected, disenfranchised, and prone to outbreaks of fire, roaches, and gangs of kids warring over territory. It was also Dobson’s childhood home.
By Anna Leventhal
As a rule, Daniel Griffin avoids using exclamation points. The economical, unadorned prose that is the distinguishing feature of his new short-story collection, Stopping for Strangers, doesn’t provide much room for excessive gushing, punctuation marks included.
By Joel Yanofsky
One of the downsides of being a lifelong reader is that one rarely approaches a book innocently, free from the spoiler effects of hype and reputation. I was out of the country, away from the news this summer, when Peter Behrens’ novel The O’Briens came to me in a near pristine state.
By Marianne Ackerman
Writer Maria Meindl inherited thirty-eight boxes of papers from her grandmother Mona Gould. Mona was a big name at one time, but, by the 1960s, she was virtually forgotten.
By Anne Legacé-Dowson
So, girl dates cad. Girl leaves cad. Girl trips serendipitously over business card. Girl buys into expensive arranged-marriage service. Marriage is arranged. Newly-met husband turns out to be knave. Girl leaves knave. Arranged husband professes love, knaveship is overturned. Ta-dah!
By Katia Grubisic