The big picture

Forever young

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How to pronounce talent

Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa shifts gears with a sharp and steely new collection of short stories

In-house smarts

Three Toronto booksellers are applying their curatorial expertise to launch micropublishing imprints

loan Stars

Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their most-anticipated

Sweet talker

Think about your book’s marketability, but don’t let it drive your writing

Social relevance

Why multinational publishers are courting YouTube’s most bookish influencers

feedback welcome

In order to turn online serials into novels, Wattpad Books takes a unique community-minded approach to editing

Farewell to a king

How Rush drummer and bestselling author Neil Peart saved ECW Press from closure

the weight of water

How the ocean crisis transformed a storyteller of the sea into an environmental reporter

Love actually

Harlequin aims to retain its iconic status in mass-market romance by adding realistic diversity to its fantastical escapism

Raising an activist – one book at a time

For kids looking to make a difference and effect change, the necessary skills and support are as close as the nearest bookshelf

Double the fun

Acclaimed queer kidlit writers Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson team up on the distinctly Canadian YA novel When You Get the Chance

After the woo-woo

Lindsay Wong leaves memoir behind for her first literary love, young-adult fiction

Infinite jest

Jeremy Tankard and his daughter, Hermione, give Hamlet’s Yorick his own history – and a poetic voice

Bearing witness

Poet and author Jordan Abel deconstructs the very notion of genre in his multivalent new work

The chimes of freedom

A new anthology provides an essential overview of Black intersectional liberation movements in Canada

fear and loathing

Debut collections by Michael Melgaard and Maria Reva inquire whether what we are living for is really worth it

Shooting stars

In Vivek Shraya’s new novel, two women of colour navigate a perilous friendship

To sleep, perchance to dream

Novelist S.D. ChrosTowska delivers a highly allusive, philosophically dense dystopian novel

Into the woods

A new crop of illustrated books, both fiction and non-fiction, celebrate the beauty of trees and advocate for their protection

Tween troubles

Two novels, one historical and one magical, examine the journey from childhood naiveté to preteen self-awareness

Counter points

John Ota travelled from Spadina House to Graceland searching for the perfect kitchen design