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Branching out

BY BRUCE WALSH AND DAVID McLENNAN

SPACES

The Regina Public Library Central Branch, circa 1960s

FOR MORE THAN 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served the community with innovative programming. From J.R.C. Honeyman, its first librarian from 1908 to 1936, and his efforts to ensure immigrants had access to books in their own languages to the present day, the library has been responsible for groundbreaking Canadian firsts. It implemented the country’s first fully automated library system, established the first writer-in-residence program, pioneered English as a second language programs, and hosted aboriginal storytelling circles.

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DECEMBER 2016
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Editor’s Note
History lessons
WHILE TAKING a break from working on Q&Q’s 2016 Year
Contributors
Contributors
Tom Froese, this issue’s cover illustrator, is a commercial artist
FRONTMATTER
Wade’s world
Celebrated anthropologist, explorer, and author Wade Davis shows no signs of slowing down
Outside the box
Little Free Library owners can be zealous stewards – but not everyone finds membership rewarding
Best of times, Worst of times
Nathan Whitlock on great and terrible news from the book world
Picture this
Words of advice for authors looking to write for the playground set
Blond ambition
Emily Schultz’s 2012 novel gets a film treatment
Toiling in Munro country
Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes
FEATURES
Out in the open
Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?
2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
OUR 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW suggested there was reason to
Covers of the year
Five booksellers share their picks for 2016 cover designs with front-facing appeal
Books of the Year
Q&Q editors reveal some of their favourite releases of 2016
Northern reflections
Chef Derek Dammann and food journalist Chris Johns share insights into their debut cookbook, showcasing Canadian cuisine
Reviewer picks
Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year
Kids’ books of the year
Q&Q’s Books for Young People editor shares her favourite children’s titles of 2016
Twice as nice
Three authors speak to adapting their adult non-fiction titles for young readers
Blurred lines
A trio of 2016 books troubles the distinction between novels and short stories
REVIEWS
History lessons
Charlotte Gray and Jane Urquhart anticipate Canada’s sesquicentennial in two new volumes
Drawn and caged
Two promising first poetry collections employ common tropes to good effect
Mean streets
Vintage Canadian noir has distinct pleasures, but also tends to show its age
Style and substance
Two French-Canadian novels in translation employ innovative narrative tactics, to varying results
Murder most foul
Two new books provide graphic, though incomplete, pictures of a notorious New Brunswick murder
Visions of conflict
Two graphic novels find different approaches to life during war
Charms all o’erthrown
Margaret Atwood reconceives Shakespeare’s final play, with mixed results
BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Bugging out
Carson Ellis proves that cute insects and invented language are a winning combination
Inner Space
A pair of new titles aims to inform kids about life on Earth and around it
Mosaic views
Susan Hughes offers a comprehensive look at our country’s history of immigration
Winter round up
Four picture books make the most of the season
BOOK MAKING
Chilly holiday frights
Seth disguises his cartoony style for Biblioasis’s collection of Christmas ghost stories