Contributors

Stefanie Neves photographed Kevin Patterson for this month’s cover and

Cultural representation

WHEN JUSTIN TRUDEAU won the federal election in October, the

Clarity of purpose

Before she was a published novelist, Jen Sookfong Lee worked

The view from the Fringe

IT BEGAN, in one respect, because a poet was in

Best of times, Worst of times

Amazon.ca named Vancouver as the Canadian city that most loves

Stop procrastinating and get writing

I read a lot. I think being familiar with other

Reliable narrator

VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S 1955 novel Lolita is, arguably, one of the

Bibliophiles abuzz

IN THE neighbourhood of Old Ottawa South, Black Squirrel Books

Outside the box

“You have to shed your academic personality,” the literary agent

Silently or loud

Austin Clarke never considered himself part of the CanLit firmament

On the edge

Over a body of work that moves from non-fiction to

Book mobile

Mega booksellers, whether online or brick-and-mortar, dominate the literary retail

Human traffic

AS ENGROSSING as any thriller, Anosh Irani’s fourth novel offers

Trudeaumania: The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

SCREAMING GIRLS, flashing lights, and a dazzling smile. These are

One Soldier: A Canadian Soldier‘s Fight Against the Islamic State

“ISIS HAS been able to maraud across Syria and Iraq

Three Years with the Rat

JAY HOSKING has an interesting CV for a novelist, with

Waiting for the Cyclone

ACCORDING TO the publisher’s copy accompanying Leesa Dean’s debut story

Hunger games

EMMA DONOGHUE’S latest novel thrusts us back into a small,

Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America

DESPITE A recent change in government and the widespread “Canada

The Fatalists

MOST EVERYONE has experienced the aggravation of temporarily losing cellphone

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

AT ONE point in The Revenge of Analog: Real Things

The Memory Illusion: Why You May Not Be Who You Think You Are

POPULAR SCIENCE books that focus on the workings of the

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of

Short takes

WITH The Path of Most Resistance, his first new collection

Home and away

THE FIRST work of fiction by Chinese writer Xue Yiwei

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

IN THE spring of 1914, Georges Clemenceau – journalist, republican,

Five Roses

READERS FAMILIAR with Miriam Toews’s earnest rendering of suicide’s complexities

Tales from the blue line

Leonard “Red” Kelly with L. Waxy Gregoire and David M

All the Things We Leave Behind

RIEL NASON’S All the Things We Leave Behind is a

The Couple Next Door

THE JULY/AUGUST issue of The Atlantic features a long essay

The eyes have it

IT WOULD be difficult to find a person possessed of

The Griffin of Darkwood

THE GRIFFIN OF DARKWOOD is an exciting, fanciful story filled

A Squiggly Story

A YOUNG wannabe author is coached by his more literate

King Baby

CANADIAN CARTOONING superstar Kate Beaton follows up her stellar kidlit

Once in a Town Called Moth

A NOVEL about a 14-year-old girl plucked from her strict

A Boy Named Queen

TEN-YEAR-OLD Evelyn’s life has always had a sameness about it:

Pandas on the Eastside

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE the power of goodness to overcome that which

Pride and prejudice

RESPECT IS the dominant theme that runs through Girl Mans

Making it Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict

IN HER latest book, Vancouver author Marilee Peters looks closely

Rise up

FORTY YEARS after the June 16, 1976, Soweto Student Uprising

Aluta

GUELPH, ONTARIO, author Adwoa Badoe takes readers to her native

Temper, temper

NAUGHTINESS IS the lifeblood of the comic middle-grade novel, but

Supporting characters

LAST YEAR, the University of Regina Press launched a series