Ian Weir’s The Death and Life of Strother Purcell
by Brett Joseph Grubisic
Ian Weir’s phantasmagorical novel features a village of left-field characters.
Ian Weir’s The Death and Life of Strother Purcell
Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow
by Dilia Narduzzi
Rice’s novel complicates and demands a rethinking of the apocalyptic category itself.
“Inventory”
By Kayla Czaga
Sometimes the bartenders fill shot glasses until the liquid bubbles above the rim and it’s…
Amanda Jernigan’s Years, Months, Days
by Dancy Mason
In her latest collection, Amanda Jernigan turns Mennonite hymns into formally exquisite poetry.
The Mystery-Anthology Mystery Solved?
By Brian Busby
Alberto Manguel’s 1991 Canadian anthology, “Canadian Mystery Stories.”
Adrian Michael Kelly’s The Ambassador of What
by Jared Young
Everything essential about Adrian Michael Kelly’s new story collection, The Ambassador of What, is right…
No Country for Old Books
by Brian Busby
“Canada Reads” isn’t about literature, or discovering good books; it’s about what’s socially edifying, and new.
Knife | Fork | Book
by Michael Melgaard
Classes, conversations, and readings are the lifeblood of Toronto’s poetry-only bookshop.
People’s Co-Operative Bookstore by Michael Melgaard
Though it has strayed from its 1940s communist roots, Vancouver’s Co-op Books still prides itself on its progressive, left-leaning approach.
Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nick de Pencier’s Anthropocene
reviewed by Patricia Robertson
Anthropocene, the book, embodies the moral and aesthetic contradictions of the project as a whole.