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This month, Laura Kenins interviews graphic novelist Julie Doucet, who

The inevitability of change

ATWOOD, COHEN, Ondaatje, Mistry, Urquhart. While many of Ellen Seligman’s

Philosophical horror story

Iain Reid wanted his first novel to be uncomfortable –

Best of times, Worst of times

U.S. President Barack Obama penned the introduction to the new

Blind ambition

My husband recently retired and is fulfilling his dream of

Guiding light

Ellen Seligman, the iconic editor and publisher of McClelland &

Parting words

INITIALLY, SANDRA Martin balked at taking on the subject of

Never-ending story

WHEN The Story of Canada, Janet Lunn and Christopher Moore’s

The poetics of racism

I can’t recall the exact incident. Perhaps it was the

Paul in retirement

Michel Rabagliati, the author and illustrator known for his series

The publishing Conundrum

THERE COMES a time over the course of nearly every

A LANGUAGE ALL HER OWN

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the Montreal artist built

Audio killed the ebook star

No podcast has captured the public’s attention like the first

Family matters

SOME WRITERS who begin their careers writing short fiction have

Core principles

GROUNDED IN the Christian doctrine of self-sacrifice and original sin,

Natural selection

IN THE recent film The Revenant, set in the Montana

In the driver’s seat

Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus

A bird’s eye view

AMONG THE cascading absurdities, ironies, and japeries that attach to

Smoke signals

CONTEMPORARY NOVELS heralded as “Dickensian” are usually so only superficially:

Artistic temperments

FOR YEARS there’s been a trend of picture books based

Pair of Kings

A SENSITIVE, occasionally painful story about troubled teens, and a

Femmes fatales

A DARK psychological thriller, Beware That Girl marks a departure

Mail bonding

NICK BANTOCK’S epistolary novel Griffin & Sabine, which traces the