Good intentions

Contributors

Jaime Hogge is an editorial and commercial photographer based in

On the competitive side

AMID ALL the scandals and successes during this summer’s Olympic

Scientific method

Kristi Charish’s science training brings a sense of believability to her urban fantasy novels

The common good

After years of austerity measures, Library and Archives Canada is ready to (re)meet its public

Best of times, Worst of times

Nathan Whitlock on great and terrible news from the book world

One is the loneliest number

Stop hoarding your work-in-progress and learn to share

Youth must be served

Kat Kruger gives Bruce McDonald’s latest film a YA rating

Thinking outside the big box

Flying Books brings an eclectic list of titles to unexpected places

Chapter and verse

Poetry and prose offer different relationships to time in dealing with fallout from a serious illness, writes

The key to success

Will André Alexis’s new novel receive the same international accolades as his runaway hit Fifteen Dogs? Alexis, for one, isn’t concerned

Winning words

As the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize turns 20, award recipients and their editors share memories of working together

Art on the page

Publishers are finding niche success by curating relationships with major galleries

People are people

In her debut work of fiction, Marni Jackson examines the cult of celebrity

Running dry

Maude Barlow issues plenty of warnings about the water crisis, but few practical solutions

History strikes back

Jennifer Welsh’s Massey Lectures show that the end of history was declared prematurely

Fables of the reconstruction

Paulette Jiles’s well-researched historical novel suffers from a point of view that is unfortunately limiting

I’m a man

Jowita Bydlowska examines toxic masculinity in her debut novel

Political class

In his new memoir, Noah Richler reflects on the experience of running for election as a federal NDP candidate

Same, but different

Two new picture books take negative ideas about difference and turn them into celebrations of diversity

Hard times

A North Korean refugee describes his brutal childhood before fleeing to freedom

I want to believe

A pair of human settlers on an alien planet must overcome their differences to find the truth in James Bow’s sci-fi adventure

Margo Thinks Twice

One Saturday morning, Margo wakes up with the undeniable urge

Parades to remember

A wealth of archival material made every day Christmas for Steve Penfold