Tales worth telling

Contributors

This issue, Raizel Robin looks at the problems that can

Back to basics

I RECENTLY had the pleasure of chatting with Charlotte Gray,

Monkey grip

In 2012, Andrew Westoll was mulling over material for a

Best of times, worst of times

In response to a petition demanding Donald Trump be banned

Beating the band

For the past seven years, I’ve been working on my

Ghosts of our shared past

My first experience of the semantic headaches self-deception creates when

Fall preview 2016: Fiction

IN THE May 26, 2015, issue of The New Yorker,

Non-fiction

WHEN SIMON & Schuster Canada editor Phyllis Bruce asked Charlotte

Beyond the shelf

Sitting in her living room on a sun-lightened red couch,

Border crossings

DAVID BERGEN, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner The

All That Man Is

THERE’S A deftly submerged schematic quality to Montreal-born writer David

What Killed Jane Creba?

WHEN JANE CREBA was gunned down in the heart of

Light and shadow

Steven PRice’S By Gaslight is a 19th-century sensation novel rewritten

Class conflicts

EDMONTON-BASED Iman Verjee’s 2012 debut, In Between Dreams (which won

Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

THE FIRST time Kamal Al-Solaylee watched Carol Reed’s film Oliver!

Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age

IN MAKING FEMINIST MEDIA, Elizabeth Groeneveld, currently assistant professor in

War zones

A FRONT-PAGE article in the May 29, 2016, edition of

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

FOR most people, the announcement in 2014 by then prime

One Man Grand Band

“I’M A poor wayfaring stranger, / Travelling through this world

The Spawning Grounds

FIRE IS the element that threatens the people and land

Life music

THERE IS so much going on in Madeleine Thien’s third

Life in the Court of Matane

ALL QUEBECERS, it seemed, turned on their televisions during the

Borrowed Days

“UNPREPARED FOR it, you fall – / hear yourself crack

Congratulations on Everything

The nexT time you find yourself in a bar, consider

Variations on a theme

ANTHOLOGIES OF themed short stories carry a significant risk: if

Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War

ANY IMPRESSION of the smart set’s antics between the 20th

New Albion

AS AFICIONADOS of the theatre know, the Victorian age was

The Power of Names

“MOST OF us take our names for granted,” writes Mavis

Dressing the part

Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels From Cleopatra to Lady

Still a Gorilla!

WILLY IS a small gorilla who lives in the city

Maxwell the Monkey Barber

IN THIS rhyming picture book, Maxwell the monkey opens his

The Cranky Ballerina

THE CRANKY BALLERINA introduces readers to Ada, who, as the

Dancing in the Rain

IN SHELLEY HRDLITSCHKA’S 2002 novel, Dancing Naked, a teenager named

Your body is a wonderland

Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call

Ooko

LITERARY FOXES are usually sly tricksters, but debut picture book

Detached

ONTARIO AUTHOR Christina Kilbourne’s 2007 book, Dear Jo, was about

All the World a Poem

GILLES TIBO was already a wellloved children’s illustrator when he

The Pain Eater

AT AGE 14, Maddy is gang raped by five boys

Portrait of the artist

ONE DAY can change everything. That is the premise of

Professor Astro Cat’s Atomic Adventure

VANCOUVER AUTHOR Dr. Dominic Walliman has a PhD in quantum

The Fixes

OWEN MATTHEWS’s latest YA novel tells the story of a

Inside the lines

illustrator paul covello’s 2014 picture book, Toronto ABC, is a