Review of "A Guest in the House" by Emily Carroll.

Review of "Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest" by Amanda Lewis.

Review of "A Field Guide to Gold, Gemstone & Mineral Sites of British Columbia, Volume Two: Sites within a Day’s Drive of Vancouver" by Rick Hudson.

Kelsea O'Connor on the self-published webcomic by Ngozi Ukazu.

Kelsea O'Connor on queer lovers, gothic horror and fairy tale themes.

Review of "The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson Forgeries" by Jon S. Dellandrea.

In The High Mountains of Portugal (Knopf), Yann Martel returns to magic realism in three interwoven stories about lost love and journeys taken to reclaim the past.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews Kitten Clone by Douglas Coupland, a "humanizing portrait" of Alcatel-Lucent, the company that developed the internet we know and love today.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews We Are Pirates, a witty adventure through modern-day piracy by Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket.

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg (Doubleday Canada) is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel offering feminist adaptations of folk tales wrapped in an epic-feeling love story.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews Nox by Anne Carson (New Directions).

Kelsea O'Connor on "The Case of the Gilded Lily," a film by Shipwrecked Comedy.

Kelsea O'Connor on the bible, the Golden Girls and Captain Kirk's Lesbianism.

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua asks the question: what would the world be like if mathematician Ada Lovelace and inventor Charles Babbage had succeeded in creating the first Victorian computer?

Kelsea O'Connor reviews Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, a collection of comics full of "ghosts, parasites, dead brothers, mysterious strangers and murderous husbands."

"Awkwardness comes with loving someone too much or not enough." A review of Other People We Married by Emma Straub.

Kelsea O'Connor on the comprehensive biography of Edward Gorey.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, a lighthearted look at the embarrassing moments in the author's life.

Mallory Ortberg's subversive dark fairy tales.

"This Accident of Being Lost" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (House of Anansi) is a sharp collection of short stories and poetry that resists the colonialism of contemporary Canada.

Kelsea O’Connor on Manfried the Man by Caitlyn Major and Kelly Bastow.

A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffam contemplates the pillow, an ordinary object, as the buffer between internal and external life.

Kelsea O'Connor on "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by the Canadian linguist Gretchen McCulloch.

Kelsea O'Connor on two comic-obsessed teens in rural Nova Scotia.

Kelsea O'Connor on Our Animal Hearts by Dania Tomlinson.

Review of "Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey" by Sylvia Olsen.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer (Visual Editions).

Kelsea O'Connor on many aspects of food, from culinary extinctions to kombucha microbiomes.

Review of "Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food" by Lenore Newman.

A list of things you can get for 99¢.

Kelsea O'Connor reviews 101 Two-Letter Words, an illustrated Scrabble guide by Stephen Merritt with running themes of sloths, songwriting and vampire dogs.

A review of Love & the Mess We’re In by Stephen Marche.

Kelsea O’Connor on 48 printmakers and their unconventional studios.