By Ansharah Shakil, October 13 2023—
This article contains spoilers for the graphic novel Roaming.
In the graphic novel Roaming, three Canadian girls in their first year of university visit New York City in 2009, for their spring break. Queen’s … Read the rest
By Cynthia Nguyen, September 26 2023—
This article includes spoilers for Collen Hoover’s book, Verity.
The first time I held a Colleen Hoover book in my hands, she had not yet blown up on BookTok. I was an avid reader … Read the rest
By Reyam Jamaleddine, August 25 2023—
Brown Boy by Omer Aziz is a memoir that narrates the author’s life from growing up in Scarborough to the halls of Yale Law. He is the child of Pakistani immigrants and in his … Read the rest
By Aymen Sherwani, September 22 2021—
If you pride yourself on being a reader, take the time to examine the names that have found a place on your bookshelf. There are probably a lot of fun and quirky young adult … Read the rest
By Jen Sidorova, February 16 2018 —
If you weren’t already aware, there’s a library within the Students’ Union Q Centre in MacHall, the LGBTQA+ community space on the U of C campus. One author on its shelves worth checking … Read the rest
By Mariah Wilson, September 15 2017 —
Sonja and Carl, the first fiction novel from Newfoundland’s Suzanne Hillier, captures the nuances of Canadian culture among young adults at the turn of the 20th century. The novel focuses on the inner … Read the rest
By Emily Macphail, May 26, 2017—
Scott Laudati’s debut novel, Play the Devil, is pegged as a coming-of-age tale. While most stories of this kind tend to involve some transformation or epiphany experienced by the main character, Laudati’s protagonist, Londi, … Read the rest
By Liv Ingram, January 8 2015 —
Before Gary Shteyngart was topping bestseller lists and kissing James Franco in a pink bathrobe for book trailers, he was Igor Shteyngart, a sickly, asthmatic child of the former Soviet Union. His memoir, … Read the rest
By Sean Grisdale, October 16 2014 —
With This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein advances a critical arc established in her works No Logo and The Shock Doctrine. While those books investigate the consequences of a corporate … Read the rest
By Connor Sadler, September 11 2014 —
Cypulchre, the latest novel from Calgary sci-fi author Joseph MacKinnon revolves around the creation of the Cloud, a futuristic technology that lets users explore the “noosphere,” an internet-like plane of existence where everything … Read the rest
