Covers of the Year

In living colour

I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN I first noticed, but suddenly

The grand tour

As his tenure with TIFA draws to a close, Geoffrey E. Taylor shares memories from his 15 years on the international stag

Northern Heat

Toronto Romance Writers is supporting professional development and networking for new Canadian romance authors

Value judgment

What to do when the reaction to your life’s work is deafening silence

Make it Yukon and nerdy

Inspired by ‘90s DIY zines and sci-fi pop culture, Cole Pauls created a comic collection for the Indigenous youth in his hometown

crunching the numbers

How hybrid publishers are filling the gaps in Canada’s lean business-book market

Ear to the ground

Publishers, authors, and podcasters expected to converge as the Frankfurt Book Fair launches its inaugural audio marketplace

Colour me pink

Lisa Jager, senior art director at Penguin Random House Canada, shares insight into 2019’s vibrant cover design trends

Punchy publishing

Designer Michel Vrana pivots to the role of book publisher in his latest endeavour, Black Eye Books

Designing woman

Ingrid Paulson reinvigorates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s

past imperfect

In a powerful new graphic novel, Korean cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry- Kim examines a history of sexual slavery

Of rebels and writers

In a new novel and an essay collection, Johanna Skibsrud proves herself a versatile and poetic author and thinker

Back to Gilead

More than three decades later, Margaret Atwood returns to her dystopian vision with a sequel to her most famous novel

Visions of hell

Jonathan Ball’s latest collection traffics in horror and pop culture, but raises thorny political questions about authorship

Resisting and hustling

Two politically charged poetry anthologies focus on marginalized communities and question prevailing attitudes and stereotypes

Hungry like the wolf

A young pup searches for food and family in a vivid story that asks why are we culling these threatened animals?

Garden tales

Marianne Dubuc and Esmé Shapiro get creative with foliage, vegetation, and the real and imagined beasts a garden holds

get out alive

Tim Wynne-Jones focuses on character and Jo Treggiari revels in unrelenting suspense in these powerful survival stories

How to get away with murder

The Mysterious Package Company forgoes storytelling rules to give wannabe detectives an authenic gumshoe experience