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Little Free Library owners can be zealous stewards – but not everyone finds membership rewarding
Best of times, Worst of times
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Blond ambition
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Branching out
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Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes
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Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?
2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
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Books of the Year
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Northern reflections
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Reviewer picks
Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year
Kids’ books of the year
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Twice as nice
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Blurred lines
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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
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Charms all o’erthrown
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Inner Space
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Four picture books make the most of the season
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