The list was compiled by Halifax journalists Trevor J. Adams and (occasional Q&Q contributor) Stephen Clare, based on the votes of more than 700 authors, critics, librarians, professors, booksellers, ...

In “Enough Trouble” from Casey Plett’s new fiction collection A Dream of a Woman, Gemma, “a professional drinker and a sloppy hooker,” couch-surfs her way back to her hometown. The unnamed city of ...

The Q&Q team reached out to reviewers, booksellers, and people in the publishing industry across the country to find out which titles from 2024 they’re still thinking about as the year draws to a ...

Jack David has told the origin story of ECW Press so many times he’s not even sure if it’s true anymore. In 1973, he was talking with some of his fellow grad students before a Canadian poetry class at ...

What is a “Haida manga”? It’s been a decade and a half since Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas published the first book bearing this evocative epithet, and the landscape of graphic novels has continued to ...

Over the course of three instalments, Q&Q presents the titles we’re most excited about this fall. This week’s final instalment features nonfiction. Fiction, short fiction, and poetry were featured in ...

Greg Younging, the publisher of Theytus Books, the oldest Indigenous publishing house in Canada, passed away on May 3. The Penticton, B.C., press where he worked as managing editor from 1990 to 2004, ...

When Ashley Audrain worked in public relations, she wrote fiction on the side. But when she took the director of publicity position at Penguin Canada, where she worked until 2015, she gave up her ...

Rachel Manley has made a career out of writing about her illustrious Jamaican family, including her prime-minister father. Best known for her 1997 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning memoir, ...

Like Cinderella with a temper, Kickass Annie will never be the same after midnight on Dec. 31. That’s when Koyama Press, the prolific Canadian comic arts publisher featuring the iconic Kickass Annie ...

Most conversations on climate change are beset with a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Saving the planet is a tall order. Where does one even begin? What can ordinary folks do about it?

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Métis author Beatrice Mosionier’s best-known work In Search of April Raintree. The novel candidly deals with Indigenous experiences of sexual assault, suicide, ...