Portraits of the artists

Editor’s Note

IN OCTOBER 2020, the Canadian publishing industry will

Lost Identity

Written while homeless, Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali’s queer coming-of-age memoir illuminates a young immigrant’s struggles

The pressure to pre-order

Pre-orders can launch a bestseller, yet some publishers say they remain an unreliable predictor of success

Language may offend

Consider this before using terms that have fallen out of favour

Beyond the border

Canadian indie publishers are taking risks – and finding new readers – in the United States

Accessing New Views

The AbleHamilton Disability Poetics Festival is the first of its kind in Canada, focusing on deaf and disabled authors

Personal taste

Chef Shane Chartrand and photographer Cathryn Sprague reveal their favourite images from Tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

Small But Mighty

A solid catalogue and a strong identity help Bologna Prize–winning press Comme des géants stand out in a saturated market

What Publishers Need To Know Before Frankfurt 2020

The real work begins now, say representatives from previous Guest of Honour countries

Pages in time

Maria Campbell speaks about the new edition of her seminal memo ir, Halfbreed, and why her words are still urgently necessary today

Ascend To The Top

How literary mountain books and their Canadian publishers are reaching the height of success

The Long Road

Wayde Compton launches a graphic-novel adaptation of his 1999 short story “The Blue Road,” with artist April dela Noche Milne

Stella Says

Montreal author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay on the 20th anniversary of Stella and Sam

They Wrote And Now You Write

The lives and poetry of Jamaica’s Louise Bennett Coverley and Cape Breton’s Rita Joe inspire a new generation of storytellers

Shifting the narrative

Following the success of Turtle Island, authors Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger continue to reframe the history of North America

Foreign correspondent

A major new volume of Martha Gellhorn’s letters proves the journalist and fiction writer to be a major literary force in her own right

Family matters

Emma Donoghue’s latest novel is about history uncomfortably repeating itself

Story time

New collections from Ian Colford and Seyward Goodhand feature different aesthetic approaches to the short form

A literary menagerie

Debut story collections from Julie Roorda and J.R. McConvey testify to the protean nature of the genre

Artists’ inspiration

Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad’s new biographical children’s book pays tribute to a groundbreaking author-illustrator

The sincerest pumpkin patch

The first collaboration from Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks is a sweet, Halloween-themed workplace comedy

Chew on this

Silly, retro, diverse, sophisticated, and sturdy – this crop of books appeals to everybody and every baby

Space oddities

Two new picture books approach astronomy from a unique perspective