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Inner Space
BY NIKKI LUSCOMBE
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I Am Josephine (And I Am a Living Thing)
Jan Thornhill; Jacqui Lee, ill.
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Wade’s world
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Outside the box
Little Free Library owners can be zealous stewards – but not everyone finds membership rewarding
Best of times, Worst of times
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Blond ambition
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Branching out
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Toiling in Munro country
Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes
FEATURES
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Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?
2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
OUR 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW suggested there was reason to
Covers of the year
Five booksellers share their picks for 2016 cover designs with front-facing appeal
Books of the Year
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Northern reflections
Chef Derek Dammann and food journalist Chris Johns share insights into their debut cookbook, showcasing Canadian cuisine
Reviewer picks
Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year
Kids’ books of the year
Q&Q’s Books for Young People editor shares her favourite children’s titles of 2016
Twice as nice
Three authors speak to adapting their adult non-fiction titles for young readers
Blurred lines
A trio of 2016 books troubles the distinction between novels and short stories
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Charlotte Gray and Jane Urquhart anticipate Canada’s sesquicentennial in two new volumes
Drawn and caged
Two promising first poetry collections employ common tropes to good effect
Mean streets
Vintage Canadian noir has distinct pleasures, but also tends to show its age
Style and substance
Two French-Canadian novels in translation employ innovative narrative tactics, to varying results
Murder most foul
Two new books provide graphic, though incomplete, pictures of a notorious New Brunswick murder
Visions of conflict
Two graphic novels find different approaches to life during war
Charms all o’erthrown
Margaret Atwood reconceives Shakespeare’s final play, with mixed results
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Winter round up
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