What middle graders want

Growing young

Looking back and moving forward in Canadian children’s publishing

Survival instinct

The fall of civilization marks a new dawn for an Indigenous community in CBC Radio host Waubgeshig Rice’s novel

Global identity

Five years after its rebrand, the University of Regina Press prepares to grow its international and Indigenous lists

Loan Stars

EACH MONTH, Canadian library staffvote for their favourite

The book of love

Blaming writing-career failures on your marriage will rightfully land you in the doghouse

slow burn

Why Canadian publishers have been cautious about joining the cannabis green rush

Know thyself

Working on a book about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helped illuminate how the test seduces you, writes

Theory and practice

Poet and editor Canisia Lubrin speaks with her mentor, writer Dionne Brand, about two new works, Brand’s approach to writing, and the nature of being

Making history

The buzz on Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black is deafening. But the author herself is not buying all the hype

A rebel yell

Canadian authors answer the call for more femaleempowerment books

Shooting daggers

Artist Connie Choi goes for emotion in her kidlit gamer illustrations

They had an inkling

The collaboration between Kenneth Oppel and Sydney Smith was bound to be something special

Reality bites

Raziel Reid follows up his acclaimed debut with a scathing satire about – and for – the social-media generation

Every picture tells a story

Earthrise gives readers an introduction to an iconic NASA moment and the social unrest that defined 1968

Nothing can tear us apart

Critically acclaimed kidlit authors offer a fresh take on the parent-child connection

Reviews Up where she belongs

Andrea Warner delivers an essential volume about musician and activist Buffy SainteMarie

Life stories

New collections from Adrian Michael Kelly and H.B. Hogan illustrate the potential and the pitfalls of the form

Scenes from a marriage

Kathy Page’s latest novel finds the extraordinary within its portrait of ordinary lives

An unsentimental education

Yves Beuchemin’s new novel, a sprawling tale about a young Montreal man, suffers from a surfeit of exposition

Rage and rebellion

Miriam Toews’s stark new novel, about the fallout from a series of brutal rapes, is a tough but ultimately cathartic read

Manning up

Tyler Keevil’s fiction extends the tropes of machismo to admit ambiguity and vulnerability

New again

Graphic designer Ingrid Paulson is reimagining classic novels for the 21st century