Celebrated crime writer and two-time Governor General’s Literary Award winner Andrée A. Michaud's Mirror Lake is at once funny and sad, poetic and gritty, meaningful and absurd.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
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Inspired by her experiences as a Big Sisters mentor to a girl in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette originally published her bleak and solemn first novel Neighbourhood Watch in 2010 under the title Je voudrais qu’on m’efface.
By JB Staniforth
Keith Henderson's Mont Babel is a mix of intellectual speculation, sci-fi themes, and family drama.
By Natalia Yanchak
This collection of Margaret Laurence's non-fiction is valuable for researchers as well as more casual readers.
By Danielle Barkley
An urgently needed, exceptionally well-researched piece of intelligence about the actual limits to academic freedom that shape the life trajectories of aspiring Black scholars, historically and now.
By Emilie Nicolas
Mary Soderstrom's Concrete features a lively mix of field visits, interdisciplinary research, and personal anecdotes, interwoven with historical research and technical data.
By Morgan Charles
Neglected No More, André Picard’s mix of exposé and impassioned plea, is summed up in the book’s subtitle, The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic.
By Malcolm Fraser
Indigenous voices, immigrant stories, linguistic diversity, gender, and generational divides are at the forefront of this exploration of hip hop’s evolution as a medium both of expression and entertainment in Canada since the mid-1980s
By Darcy MacDonald
My Body in Pieces is Marie-Noëlle Hébert’s first graphic memoir, which recounts her personal journey coming to terms with her own body.
By Heather Leighton
Aminder Dhaliwal’s graphic novel Cyclopedia Exotica takes place in a world where the Cyclops, an exotic subspecies of humans marked by their single eye, live alongside “two-eyed” humans.
By Esinam Beckley
ritten against a backdrop of global migration caused by war and famine, the global and social movements in Rachel ...
By Robyn Fadden
Superheroes, dinosaurs, mythical beasts, different kids, Black pride and a bedtime poem – our roundup of kids' book titles for spring 2021.
By Vanessa Bonneau