Canadian award juries prioritize small presses, diverse authors on this year’s shortlists
Small presses and debut authors account for the bulk of the fifteen titles that appear on this year's shortlists.
Peter Robinson, bestselling author of the Inspector Banks mystery series, dead at age 72
The multiple award winning author was best known for his novels featuring English detective Alan Banks.
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.
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.
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.
The Great War provides the backdrop for a story about death and resurrection on an industrial scale
The Talosite exists at the confluence of sci-fi and body horror, with the actual horrors of the First World War a constant shadow in the background.
“Peeking behind the curtain of Oz”: Joshua Whitehead talks about his new book of essays, the limitations of genre, and the rigidity of the English language
"If I could go back, I might tell younger me, 'Don't do this.' "
Montreal author Kevin Lambert channels Jean Genet in a scalding novel about sex and class warfare
Lambert uses the structure of a classical Greek tragedy to tell the story of a strike at a sawmill and the amoral, charismatic figure caught up in it.