Coming of age and coming out

Transformative times

ON MAY 1, protestors in more than 20 Ontario cities

Wild, wild country

Award-winning writer Nancy Jo Cullen spins humour and family drama into her queer coming-of-age debut novel by sue carter

Rate expectations

Authors won’t always receive an appearance fee, but the conversation remains essential

In security

How urban libraries across the country are balancing the demand for safety with their users’ needs by susan peters

Sex and the cinema

Film scholars Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh reflect on a decade celebrating an alternative LGBTQ canon

At the Centre of it all

Rose Vespa, a former children’s librarian, takes the mantle at the CCBC

Double impact

How Alix Ohlin’s lifelong passion for literature inspires her teaching and fuels her new novel, Dual Citizens

A reflection of affection

Meet three new faces of romance fiction who are cracking open the heart of the genre with their inclusive love stories

Flights of fancy

Structurally innovative new books from David Szalay and Adam Foulds contain overlapping concerns

Urban malaise

Joe Berridge’s new book strikes an optimistic tone but ignores key realities about how postmodern cities function

Where the grass is greener

A new batch of illustrated books help kids cope with jealousy, envy, and that desperate feeling of wanting what you cannot have

Shot through the heart

Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell collaborate on a Californiacool graphic novel about falling for the wrong person

Labour pains

Two novels, released on the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg Strike, look at the event through the eyes of young newspaper sellers

Frisky business

How physicist Chris Ferrie is introducing an 80-year-old science puzzle to a new generation