Our look at some of the season's most provocative titles offers profiles of authors Shani Mootoo and Sean Michaels, as well as wide-ranging reviews.

	Displacement anchors Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab
	Fact and fantasy make music in Sean Michaels' Us Conductors
	Crime and high society mingle in Eve Lazarus's Sensational Vancouver
	David Adams Richards offers small-town realism in Crimes Against My Brother
	andrea bennett takes a direct route in Canoodlers
	David Sheff's Clean takes a tour through drug and alcohol addiction in America
	Literary events light up Vancouver