Classes, conversations, and readings are the lifeblood of Toronto’s poetry-only bookshop.
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Though it has strayed from its 1940s communist roots, Vancouver’s Co-op Books still prides itself on its progressive, left-leaning approach.
Anthropocene, the book, embodies the moral and aesthetic contradictions of the project as a whole.
Animal sentience has become a hot topic in recent fiction, and none too soon. At a time when science is showing that animals do indeed have language—a recent study of canebrake wrens suggests that birdsong is governed by a complex, learned set of social rules, much like human communication—it’s encouraging to see more fiction that
Cameron Anstee’s “Book of Annotations” and Alice Major’s “Welcome to the Anthropocene.”
Step onto crunching parchment, hold out hands, and press the hallway walls as codices to down- stairs. As if the…
Liz Harmer’s sharp-eyed debut harnesses our high-tech fears to masterful effect.
The house sparrow carries sunlight in her beak. Consider the mystery—the slight frame burgeoning with hymns against the backdrop of…
Montrealer Enid Louise Cushing’s 1956 mystery debut, “Murder’s No Picnic.”
At Calgary’s Pages Books, Gaiman, Murakami, and Cusk make happy bedfellows with Canadian independent presses and 6 translations of Madame Bovary.