Addresses key authors and works in contemporary Canadian fiction, exploring cultural and historical contexts, and with essays surveying the critical conversations about them. .

Perceptions of contemporary Canadian fiction / Carol L. Beran -- A literary, sociocultural, and political timeline for Canada and the United States, 1960-2013 / Rita Ross -- Learning how to read in Atwood's MaddAddam / Sharon R. Wilson -- Cultural heroines and Canadian imaginaries : Evangeline and Anne / Rita Ross -- MacLeod's men / Shannon Hengen -- Race roulette : hierarchy, hypersexuality, and hyperbole in Marie-Célie Agnant's The book of Emma and Dany Laferriére's How to make love to a negro without getting tired / Holly L. Collins -- Margaret Atwood's comedy : the fat lady and the gendered body in Lady oracle / Charlotte Templin -- Alice Munro's 1994 "A wilderness station" : storytelling and retelling of historic, biblical, gothic, and Grimm stories / Judith McCombs -- Analogical structure in the novels of Jane Urquhart / Patricia Linton -- "By mistake" : Larry Weller as 'The stone guest' in Carol Shields' novel Larry's party / Nora Foster Stovel -- Listening and loving : reading Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Carol L. Beran -- Riding the waves : Aritha van Herk's Restlessness / Mary K. Kirtz -- Naming and becoming : finding love in the Klondike / Aritha van Herk -- Understanding a father's pain in Madeleine Thien's "Simple recipes" / Janice Fiamengo.