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With less content in my lifeI am infinitely more contentAgainst the backdrop of a sibling's death, an eating disorder, and a few very dismal dating relationships, Villa Negativa looks for laughter behind darkness: the intruder who politely removes her shoes, the fabricator whose closest relationship is with fibreglass, the anorexic who sends the Diet Coke back because it tastes too good. Meditative and mischievous, confessional and philosophical, sincere and sly by turns, Sharon McCartney's seventh collection articulates an essential truth of self-knowledge-that "e;to perceive something, we have to be able / to stand away from it."e;

From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game.

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together?The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit voteand the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 the worst ever. Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media clich. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to wonder: what if The End isnt one big event, but a long series of smaller ones?In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: its not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtuesreason, logic, science, evidencehas run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?

In this comic novella, a stepmother navigates the complex relationships between her husband, his ex, and their daughter.

New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.

In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant recklessness. Invisible to their parents and subject to the whims of an abusive coach, the crucible of competition pushes them again and again into dangerous choices. When a deadly accident leaves them second-guessing one another, they're driven even deeper into violence. Brilliantly translated into breakneck English by Ildik Nomi Nagy, Dead Heat is a blistering debut and an unforgettable story about young men coming of age in an abandoned generation.

Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens and other great ghost story writers felt otherwise!

Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens and other great ghost story writers felt otherwise!

A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth-and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she'd lost.After thirty-five years as an "e;on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,"e; poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec's Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet-ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart. A meditation on creative process in both music and literary art, this two-tiered musical autobiography interweaves past and present as it tracks the author's long-ago defection from a musical career path and her late re-embrace of serious practice. At its core is a portrait of an extraordinary piano teacher and of a relationship remembered and renewed.

Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens and other great ghost story writers felt otherwise!

A sea witch, a bossy Virgin Mary, and a lesbian widow's ghost walk into a short story collection ...

A love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, and a time-tripping work of speculative fiction-in verse.

A poet's firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.

"e;A poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon."e;Quill & QuireNimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, the prosody-driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutability of the self against the forces of habit, instinct, and urge. With homages to Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, this third book from poet and critic Zachariah Wells both wears its influences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collection far greater than its parts.Zachariah Wells is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of criticism (Career Limiting Moves, 2014).

First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as it has in every previous incarnation. Sophisticated, playful, crafted, sly, self-referential and extremely funny, it marks the beginning of a long and important, if unfortunately under appreciated, career by one of Canada's best humorists and innovative story-tellers.

Reveling in its own perversity, this horror tale accuses suburban Quebec of abusing and murdering its children-then takes revenge.

Cameron Dueck takes a motorcycle trip through Manitoba and Latin America in search of isolated enclaves of extreme Mennonites-and himself.

First in a series of five autobiographical novels, Aubrey McKee is a coming-of-age story for the '80s generation.

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death-and an argument for how it can make us happy.

A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.

The true story of North America's first known spree killer, written by a veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

In this intimate portrait of a friendship between two young women, Lahey reflects on cancer and coming of age.

Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens and other great ghost story writers felt otherwise!

Norm Sibum's poems are field notes from the end of empire, a satirist's barbs, verse letters from a poet to his enemies and friends.

A must-read for anyone with a stake in contemporary Canadian literature, or with curiosity about poetry on the world stage.

An assured collection of short stories and a novella about faith, doubt, and grace.

After spending a night with his mother's dead body, a six-year-old boy stows away on an ocean liner.

Poems mapping the many contours of history-political, social, personal, and spiritual-and considering the ways we shape and are shaped by the land.