Too many cooks spoil the industry

Contributors

Arden Wray is a photographer specializing in “honest, intimate portraiture

Acceptable risk

“LUGE MIGHT not be the first sport that comes to

Company man

For much of the 20th century, consumers bought their goods

Best of times, Worst of times

Barnes and Noble has applied for a liquor licence for

A livre by any other name

English books are hard to come by in Quebec City,

Written on the body

W hen asked about the genesis of my novel-in-stories, 13

RISKY BUSINESS

For J. Kent Messum, the publication of his first novel

Taking the stage

Jael Richardson remembers being in Grade 10 drama class, searching

BEHIND THE MAGIC

THREE PICTURE-BOOK ILLUSTRATORS GIVE US A PEEK INTO THEIR STUDIOS

Mahtab Narsimhan

FOLLOWING THE success of her 2011 novel, The Tiffi n,

Everybody loves Lucy

LUGE MIGHT not be the first sport that comes to

Find your bliss

If ever there was a book that could calm a

Finding Hope

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her

The Wail of the Wendigo: An Early Adventure of Pierre Trudeau

THE LATEST instalment in the unconventional Legends and Legacies series

My Heart Fills with Happiness

DEDICATED TO former residential school students and their families, indigenous

Gotta have faith

Mariko Tamaki gives good misfit. In a YA field crowded

Book lovin’

A Big Surprise for Little Card Charise Mericle Harper; Anna

Parade route

In her first work of non-fiction, YA novelist Robin Stevenson

Beach Baby

“EVERYTHING WILL be here when you wake” a familiar line

Into the wild

A lberta-based Geoffrey Bilson Award– winning author Karen Bass draws

The Animals’ Ark

SECULAR RETELLINGS of biblical tales can have mixed results, but

Exit, Pursued by a Bear

At a party celebrating the end of cheerleading camp, Hermione

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

In her latest book for middle-graders, prolific non-fiction author Elizabeth

Movers

Toronto author Meaghan McIsaac sets her novel in a near-future

This girl’s life

Smart and sassy girls are the focus of Cordelia Strube’s

Black Apple

The shameful legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the church-run

Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability

There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream

You can’t bury them all

Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock has spent much of his life

Hardcore troubadours

Biographies of musicians are often indistinguishable from extended fan letters,

Stopgap

Luke Stevenson dies in a car accident on his birthday,

Human Rights in Canada: A History

If Canadian history were a rug, it would be marred

Dark Territory

IN HER follow-up to the acclaimed thriller Blown Red, author

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

“W e’ll survive. That’s what we do.” Such is the

Double Dutch

Double Dutch is a confident debut collection containing nine stories

Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus

THE FIRST volume in URP’s Exquisite Corpse series, which features

Glory Over Everything

Glory Over Everything, the second novel by Saskatchewan-raised, Virginiabased Kathleen

Bad Things Happen

An armchair profiler challenge based on the acknowledgments page in

Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

Reviewing John Boyko’s 2013 volume, Blood and Daring: How Canada

Wasted: An Alcoholic Therapist’s Fight for Recovery in a Flawed Treatment Syste

MICHAEL POND is a practising psychotherapist who discovered that while

The craft so long to learn

When Carol Shields died in 2003, she left behind a

Now and then

Having spent the past decade writing about Japan, Katherine Govier

From Up River and for One Night Only

In our attention-span-devoid, smartphoneoptimized era, it seems rare – nostalgic

Family tree

SIBLINGS TERRY and Eric Fan – known collectively as the