Kate Beaton recalls her time working in Alberta’s oil sands in her first graphic memoir, Ducks
Ducks deserves a place alongside Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Art Spiegelman's Maus as one of the finest examples of its genre.
In Nightmare Fuel, Canadian author Nina Nesseth investigates the neuroscience underpinning why people love being scared at the movies
As a primer to the ways cinematic horror works on audiences' psyches and the specific neurological responses these techniques can elicit, Nightmare Fuel is a breezy and fluent read.
“I eat those words like they is food”: The prismatic poetry of Pamela Mordecai
It would be salutary to see critics inside and outside of the academy pick up this book and engage with it thoroughly and thoughtfully.
The trouble with die-cuts and innovative uses for folded paper: a BookNet panel on the best and worst in book cover design
What makes a compelling book design? Four designers and a digital bookseller weigh in.
In The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher identifies the social media algorithms that are causing our societies to crumble
There are no good solutions to the problems Fisher isolates in his book, but this frightening text highlights the importance of confronting these issues regardless.
With the closure of Knife Fork Book, Toronto loses a beloved haven for poetry bookselling
The loss of the city's poetry-only bookseller is sad as much for what the store represents as for its physical presence.
Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson fiction shortlist comprises entirely books from independent Canadian presses
Two collections of short fiction and two works in translation are represented on a list that spans the country from PEI to Alberta.
“This will cut down on my reading”: The three types of books Dorothy Parker never wanted to encounter again
"When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze."
Return of Globe’s Arts & Books section features one book review – of a book by a Globe columnist
The single book review was of a book by technology columnist Josh O'Kane.
Griffin Poetry Prize incurs backlash after eliminating its dedicated category for Canadian poets
The elimination of the Canadian category makes it that much harder for domestic poets to access time in the spotlight.