Settler Education

Contributors

Katie Carey, who illustrated this issue’s feature on women in

Academy analysis

FOR THE past two years, Q&Q has been working to

Drawing home

When Kim Fu thinks back to her “intense and prolific”

What’s in a name

THE NEWEST addition to the Vancouver Public Library system will

Best of times, Worst of times

J.K. Rowling confirmed the “existence” of seven other wizarding schools

No sense of obligation

I’m a small-press author who has published two collections of

Shock value

THE CONTINUED popularity of domestic thrillers, stoked in recent years

Reading remotely

DESPITE ITS remote location along Iceberg Alley, on the northeast

Life drawing

When I was first diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast

The academic support gap

For many years, academic publishing was considered a man’s world

The restless kind

Some writers are easy to get a bead on: they

Last call

On a warm July night in 2010, in the back

Poetic tendencies

Many Canadian fiction writers started out as poets. Rarer are

Don’t Be Interesting

Jacob McArthur Mooney’s first collection since 2011’s Folk (which was

The Largeness of Rescue

“LATELY, I have been undeveloping,” writes Eva Tihanyi in “Another

Metanoia

The word “metanoia” means a change of heart resulting from

Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras

Barking and Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras is the

How Festive the Ambulance

How Festive the Ambulance is the debut poetry collection from

Things fall apart

Ashley-Elizabeth Best’s debut collection, Slow States of Collapse, comprises mostly

A Mingus Lullaby

“Genre doesn’t exist,” claims Dane Swan in a 2013 interview

Songs of Exile

Bänoo Zan immigrated to Canada in 2010 from Iran, where

Worlds in a grain of sand

“Discomfort / enthralls me,” writes Michael Prior, a poet who

The Memento

Fourteen years have passed since Christy Ann Conlin wowed readers

Quantum Night

NEBULA AWARD winner Robert J. Sawyer addresses the intricacies of

Ghosts of Bangladesh

It is a testament to the relatively placid temperament of

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

After suffering a breakdown in 1948, Kay Parley was placed

On the block

Slavery was abolished in Canada in 1834, but in the

Terror’s allure

Marshall McLuhan would have had a field day exploring the

Citizen Trudeau

SUBTITLED An Intellectual Biography, 1944–1965, University of Winnipeg political science

Big Kids

While Michael DeForge’s early work set his freakish, often hilarious

Courage, my love

It takes considerable talent for an illustrator to do justice

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools

One of the challenges confronting Canadian youth is the legacy

Trial by Fire

IN HER latest YA mystery novel, veteran writer Norah McClintock

Harry and Walter

Next-door neighbours Harry and Walter are best friends. Harry is

Toshi’s Little Treasures

LITTLE TOSHI and his grandmother share an eventful walk, taking

Fluffy Strikes Back (A P.U.R.S.T. Adventure)

After five books about Binky, the flatulent cat who yearns

Away Running

The new novel by Luc Bouchard and David Wright tackles

Flannery

Flannery is 16. She has spent her whole life in

Dragonfly Kites

THIS RECENTLY released edition of Tomson Highway’s text, originally published

Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend

Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster Canada, Ages

Fifteen Lanes

In her latest novel, S.J. Laidlaw gives us a poignant

Masterminds: Criminal Destiny

IN THE second instalment of Gordon Korman’s Masterminds series, friends

Positively precocious

Screenwriter, poet, and author Esta Spalding dips her toe into

Hunting for the Mississippi

When 12-year-old Eustache Bréman, the unworldly and wide-eyed narrator of

Peak performance

QUEBEC DESIGNER David Drummond searched everywhere to find the perfect